The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 Trafford Park

Trafford Park

The plate is inscribed: 'The Short-tailed Pie

Ajanta is a village in the hills of central Maharashtra

the lady's footman has to walk so far behind her in order not to tread on her skirts that the umbrella he carries is four times the size of an ordinary one and thus accommodates not only himself and his mistress

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 Trafford Park'Coccothraustes purpurea', the purple gross beak, and 'Toxicodendron folijs alatis fructu purpureo pyri formi sparso', the poison wood (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Loxigilla violacea, the greater Antillean bullfinch; Metopium toxiferum, the Florida poisonwood). Plate 40 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal