The little owl Sargeant referring to Cecil Wray and

referring to Cecil Wray and Viscount Hood

1794 showing the North End

with paintings lining the walls from floor to ceiling and a large crowd of fashionably dressed figures viewing the works and conversing amongst themselves

from Westminster Bridge

The little owl Sargeant referring to Cecil Wray andBird identified by Catesby as 'Noctua aurita minor', the little owl (modern scientific name: Megascops asio, the eastern screech owl). Plate 7 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 Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731