The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:XS: 20 x 15cm dated 1688

dated 1688

over the coming years

the red oak (Catesby's identifications

the white-crown'd pigeon

Back view of the hen ovary

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:XS: 20 x 15cm dated 1688'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