'White-shouldered banana oriole' [Oriole blackbird] Andre Citroen coming in at the door

coming in at the door

The Bear Garden

sitting on a tree branch and eating the fruit of the 'Inga vera' [Inga edulis

John Ross's ship Victory

'White-shouldered banana oriole' [Oriole blackbird] Andre Citroen coming in at the doorOrnithological study of the Oriole blackbird Gymnomystax mexicanus, native to South America. Side view, posed on a tree branch. Plate 2 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder January 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816.