The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 Two views of the Tower

Two views of the Tower of London with boats on the River Thames

View through an archway with three figures beneath it

View of a house in Chick Lane

Ajanta is a village in the hills of central Maharashtra

The plate is inscribed: 'The Short-tailed Pie

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 Two views of the Tower'Coccothraustes purpurea', the purple gross beak, and 'Toxicodendron folijs alatis fructu purpureo pyri formi sparso', the poison wood (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Loxigilla violacea, the greater Antillean bullfinch; Metopium toxiferum, the Florida poisonwood). Plate 40 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