'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Figure 4 Chelys fimbriata (Mata

Figure 4 Chelys fimbriata (Mata mata turtle)

Interior view of the Grand Staircase in Charterhouse

two onlookers

cannot understand why anyone would wish to read about the sport of prize fighting

Ashburnham House was purchased by Westminster School in 1882

'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Figure 4 Chelys fimbriata (MataOrnithological study of a Lord Howe Swamphen or White Gallinule (Porphyrio albus), an extinct bird native to Lord Howe Island, Australia. Plate 27 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The body is about the size of a domestic fowl. The shoulders are furnished with a small crooked spine This bird is the only species of its genus yet known of a white colour' The plate is