'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 00778216 5th January 1965

5th January 1965

The 'troops' headed by Major Topham

Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who and Bonnie Langford as Melanie seen here filming at the Majestic Holiday Camp on Barry Island

Water Lilies

a key in a cartouche and the City of London arms at the top

'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 00778216 5th January 1965Ornithological study of the Virginia rail Rallus limicola from North America, posed on a bank by the waterside. Plate 279 from chapter 69 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The American Water Rail, Etched from Nature of the bigness of life. George Edwards Delin. et Sculp: AD 1757.' Original: etching. 1757