Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin Charles flower Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles

Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles several times throughout his career

etched directly from Nature

THE POLAR BEAR

Figures inspecting debtors' boils and carbuncles at Fleet Prison

Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin Charles flower Commonwealth and European heavyweight titlesTwo studies of birds' nests. Figure 1, the nest of the goldfinch Carduelis carduelis containing a clutch of five eggs. Figure 2 the nest of the European robin Erithacus rubecula containing a clutch of seven eggs. Plate 3 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: 'Tab. III. Stigelliz. Planche 3. Fig, 1 du Chardonneret. Rothkehlein. Fig.