The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 October 24

October 24

with figures watching below

London to Brighton Emancipation Run

and twist their mouths diagonally

The reference in the heading to a civil war concerns the many rumours circulating during the previous year concerning Louis Napoleon's supposed plot to launch an invasion on Britain

The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 October 24'Sturnus niger alis superne rubentibus', the red winged starling, perched on a branch of the 'Myrtus brabanticae similis caroliniensis humilior', the broad leaved candle berry myrtle (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Agelaius phoeniceus, the red winged blackbird; Morella caroliniensis, the small evergreen bayberry). Plate 13 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London,