The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 Henry Segrave announced a new

Henry Segrave announced a new attempt was to be made in an all-new car

the lady's footman has to walk so far behind her in order not to tread on her skirts that the umbrella he carries is four times the size of an ordinary one and thus accommodates not only himself and his mistress

View of a house in Chick Lane

View through an archway with three figures beneath it

of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month'

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 Henry Segrave announced a new'Coccothraustes purpurea', the purple gross beak, and 'Toxicodendron folijs alatis fructu purpureo pyri formi sparso', the poison wood (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Loxigilla violacea, the greater Antillean bullfinch; Metopium toxiferum, the Florida poisonwood). Plate 40 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal