The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 The title appears in French

The title appears in French

Figure 3 'Monacanthus megalouris Big-tailed monacanth [Fanbellied filefish

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

Interior view of Lambeth Palace chapel

and twist their mouths diagonally

The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 The title appears in French'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,