'The Curasso-Bird, and the Cushew-Bird' mb-height 5234 Church of St Margaret

Church of St Margaret

Bromley is now in the London borough of Kent

Colin Appleton

14th February 1984

with handwritten annotation 'The Ballance Fish'

'The Curasso-Bird, and the Cushew-Bird' mb-height 5234 Church of St MargaretOrnithological study of two South American birds: figure 1 the Great curassow Crax rubra and figure 2 the Helmeted curassow Pauxi pauxi. Plate 295 from chapter 85 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: 'Fig. 1 the Mituporanga of Marggravius. Fig. 2 the Pauxi of Nieremberg, Drawn from Life.' A second, mirrored