The 'rice-bird' Helena to the left a woman

to the left a woman is holding a stick over her kneeling husband and twisting his nose

The percentage of profits made by societies sometimes were as high as fifty per cent

In the foreground a figure clears rubble

Design by Frederic Barnett for a 'duplex' low-level bridge

The 'rice-bird' Helena to the left a womanBird identified by Catesby as 'Hortulanus caroliniensis', the rice bird (modern scientific name: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the bobolink), perched on a stalk of rice, Oryza sativa. Plate 14 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