'The Black and Blue Creeper; and the Hoopoe Hen' opening door Busy street scene along Poultry

Busy street scene along Poultry and Prince's Street

shewing the Difference between that and Mankind

The fine weather brought the crowds out to Happy Hampstead

held the view that Britain might legitimately pursue peace and freedom from Irish troubles by allowing Home Rule

Inscribed verso [by William Fletcher Barrett]: 'Prof Faraday not good bought June 1864 taken about 6 mo[nth]s

'The Black and Blue Creeper; and the Hoopoe Hen' opening door Busy street scene along PoultryOrnithological studies of a Red legged honey creeper Cyanerpes cyaneus posed on a tree stump and showing the bright yellow underside of one wing; and the head of the 'Hoopoe hen', probably the Cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola. The plate also features a specimen of British moth. Plate 264 from chapter 54 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author,