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BIRDS - Goat Sucker, Swallow, Hummingbird. Antique 1880s Print

Ornithology Page with Five Perched Birds and Latin Captions – Monochrome Stipple Shading, ‘volitores’


A monochrome ornithology page presents five birds in perched poses, each numbered and captioned with Latin and common names. Fine stipple and line shading accompanies small habitat details, including a leafy branch, a rock ledge with a nest, and flowering sprigs beneath the VOLITORES heading.

  • License Info
  • Resolution: 5500 x 8600 300dpi
  • Year of Print: 1880
  • Artist: William Mackenzie
  • bee eater
  • Bird
  • bird study
  • Branch
  • caprimulgus europaeus
  • cephalolepis delalandi
  • collocalia nidifica
  • common goat sucker
  • crosshatching
  • edible nest swiftlet
  • eulampis jugularis
  • field labels
  • floral sprigs
  • Flower
  • Goat Sucker
  • Hummingbird
  • latin captions
  • Leaves
  • linework
  • merops apiaster
  • monochrome
  • Natural History
  • Nest
  • numbered figures
  • ornithology
  • perched
  • plate 1
  • rock ledge
  • rock perch
  • scientific plate
  • serif typography
  • stipple
  • taxonomic
  • volitores

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