The 'towhe' bird, the 'cowpen' bird and the 'black poplar' of Carolina mb-width 3720 The engraving is after a

The engraving is after a painting Hogarth painted at St Bartholomew's Hospital

'Cits Airing Themselves on a Sunday

Ornithological study of an Australian Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus) a nocturnal bird native to Australia

or Abraham in the Land of Promise

The 'towhe' bird, the 'cowpen' bird and the 'black poplar' of Carolina mb-width 3720 The engraving is after a'Passer niger, oculis rubris', the towhe bird, 'Passer fusca', the cowpen bird, and 'Populus nigra folio maximo gemmis balsamum odoratissimum fundentibus', the black poplar of Carolina (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the eastern towhee; Molothrus ater, the brown headed cowbird; Populus heterophylla, the swamp cottonwood). Plate 34 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama