EditorialSmallest or bee hummingbird, Mellisuga helenae. Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1799.
EditorialBee hummingbird or zunzuncito, Mellisuga helenae, and amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeune's Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837.
EditorialBee hummingbird or zunzuncito, Mellisuga helenae, and amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeune's Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837.
EditorialChinese dwarf sparrows 1,2,3 and vervain hummingbird, Mellisuga minima 4, on a tea bush, Camellia sinensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialVervain hummingbird, Mellisuga minima (least hummingbird, Trochilus minimus), male and female. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Misc...
EditorialSmallest or bee hummingbird, Mellisuga helenae. Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1799.