The 'blackcap fly-catcher' and the 'yellow jessamy' Sambourne Leverian Museum'

Leverian Museum'

pictured here at the Glasgow SECC on 6th July 1994

Standing next to an electric City and Suburban car

(c1955-c1960

The 'blackcap fly-catcher' and the 'yellow jessamy' Sambourne Leverian Museum''Muscicapa nigrescens', the blackcap fly catcher, and 'Gelseminum sive Jasminum luteum ordoratum virginianum scandens, semper virens', the yellow jessamy (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Sayornis phoebe, the eastern phoebe; Gelsemium sempervirens, the Carolina jessamine). Plate 53 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