Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird Size:S: 50 x 40cm Monument and the River Thames

Monument and the River Thames

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Kensington Garden dresses for June

5th August 1958

View of the Serpentine and Hyde Park

Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird Size:S: 50 x 40cm Monument and the River ThamesPlate 16 from the paper 'Some acount of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 332 338. Home's paper relays observations by Sir Stamford Raffles on the Edible nest switlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus). Bauer's nine figures are gullet details of these and other birds under magnification. Signed lower left