The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Blackdowne

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Weapons kept at the Tower of London

26th November 1962

Plate 358 from chapter 148 of Gleanings of natural history

left Turkey to battle with her militant provinces

The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Blackdowne'Palumbus migratorius', the pigeon of passage, with the leaves of 'Quercus esculi divisura foliis amplioribus aculeatis', the red oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Ectopistes migratorius, the passenger pigeon; Quercus laevis, the American turkey oak). This bird species is now extinct, the last specimen having died in captivity in 1914. Plate 23 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by