The swallow-tail hawk Size:XS: 30 x 20cm with the lymphatics wrapping round

with the lymphatics wrapping round it

early on a winter morning

Plate 3 from the book Zoologischer Atlas

'Mackerel '

Behelzende eene naauwkeurige Beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis (Amsterdam 1768)

The swallow-tail hawk Size:XS: 30 x 20cm with the lymphatics wrapping roundBird identified by Catesby as 'Accipiter cauda furcata', the swallow tail hawk (modern scientific name: Elanoides forficatus, the American swallow tailed kite). Plate 4 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 Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731