'Dusky shrike' mb-artistname Henry Bright shelters nervously behind a chair

shelters nervously behind a chair

The Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer

Inscribed 'Asellus niger

London as it appeared around the year 1666

A Methodist preacher urges him to repent

'Dusky shrike' mb-artistname Henry Bright shelters nervously behind a chairOrnithological study of a bird described by the author as Lanius obscurus, the dusky shrike. Side view, posed on a tree branch. Plate 21 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder Tavistock Street. 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal