The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 Stephen Mardenborough

Stephen Mardenborough

The title appears in French

Figure 3 'Monacanthus megalouris Big-tailed monacanth [Fanbellied filefish

The reference in the heading to a civil war concerns the many rumours circulating during the previous year concerning Louis Napoleon's supposed plot to launch an invasion on Britain

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The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 Stephen Mardenborough'Sturnus niger alis superne rubentibus', the red winged starling, perched on a branch of the 'Myrtus brabanticae similis caroliniensis humilior', the broad leaved candle berry myrtle (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Agelaius phoeniceus, the red winged blackbird; Morella caroliniensis, the small evergreen bayberry). Plate 13 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London,