'Wattled Bee Eater' mb-code NTS_BTN_5_85 Mersey Tunnel Opening

Mersey Tunnel Opening

St John's Hill

showing the Angel Public House at no 85 and sewer pipes waiting to be laid

Figure 8 Physcomitrium acuminatum

'Wattled Bee Eater' mb-code NTS_BTN_5_85 Mersey Tunnel OpeningOrnithological study of a male Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata), native to Australia. Plate 6 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The Wattled Bee eater is the size of a missel thrush under the eye, on each side, is a kind of wattle, of an orange colour; the middle of the belly is yellow; the tail is wedge shaped Thi sbird seems to be peculiar to New Holland,