"Cat-Bird. Slate-gray, paler and more grayish-plumbeous below; crown of head, tail, bill, and feet black. Quills of the wing blackish, edged with the body-color. Under tail-coverts rich dark chestnut or mahogany-color" Elliot Coues, 1884

Catbird

"Cat-Bird. Slate-gray, paler and more grayish-plumbeous below; crown of head, tail, bill, and feet black.…

Christ on the Mount of Olives is an engraving by Albrecht Dürer in 1508. It is part of a series of engravings called the "Passion". It depicts Jesus in his last days when he and his disciples went up to Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. Jesus goes to pray on his own and comes back to find his disciples sleeping.

Christ on the Mount of Olives

Christ on the Mount of Olives is an engraving by Albrecht Dürer in 1508. It is part of a series…

Two Angels with St. Veronica's Napkin is an engraving that was created by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1513. It shows two angels carrying the veil that has the image of Jesus. St. Veronica was the woman that followed Jesus as he carried the cross and gave him her veil to wipe his forehead. After Jesus used it, he handed back her veil and his image miraculously appeared on it.

Two Angels with St. Veronica's Napkin

Two Angels with St. Veronica's Napkin is an engraving that was created by German artist Albrecht Dürer…

This margin drawing was created by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. It is found in the prayer book of Emperor Maximilian. It is in the shape of a pole with an bird at the top and a human head at the bottom that is partly covered with wings. It stands on a bird's feet.

Margin Drawing

This margin drawing was created by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. It is found in the prayer…

The Large Head of Christ is a chiaroscuro (contrast between light and dark) woodcut that was created by German artist Albrecht Dürer's.

Large Head of Christ

The Large Head of Christ is a chiaroscuro (contrast between light and dark) woodcut that was created…

Wild Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata), also referred to as White Top grass, and Old Fog grass, is common in dry, sunny pastures, with a stem one foot high, slender with short leaves. Narrow sheaths, bearded. The panicle is simple and there are seven flowered spikelets. The lower palea broadly ovate, loosely hairy on the back, longer than its awl-shaped teeth. Perennial and flowers in June. Shown is a seed of this grass.

Wild Oat Grass

Wild Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata), also referred to as White Top grass, and Old Fog grass, is common…

Wild Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata), also referred to as White Top grass, and Old Fog grass, is common in dry, sunny pastures, with a stem one foot high, slender with short leaves. Narrow sheaths, bearded. The panicle is simple and there are seven flowered spikelets. The lower palea broadly ovate, loosely hairy on the back, longer than its awl-shaped teeth. Perennial and flowers in June. Shown is the lower pale.

Wild Oat Grass

Wild Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata), also referred to as White Top grass, and Old Fog grass, is common…

This late 19th century dress is shown in front and back.

Late 19th Century Dress

This late 19th century dress is shown in front and back.

This flower hat is designed in the shape of a ribbon with two stemmed flowers in the center.

Flower Hat

This flower hat is designed in the shape of a ribbon with two stemmed flowers in the center.

This flower hat is curved in shape with a ribbon in the back and front. In its center lays a bouquet of flowers.

Flower Hat

This flower hat is curved in shape with a ribbon in the back and front. In its center lays a bouquet…

This lady's sailor hat is designed with a large ribbon in the center.

Lady's Sailor Hat

This lady's sailor hat is designed with a large ribbon in the center.

This ribbon hat is designed with a brooch holding a rooshed ribbon and a ribbon tied right above.

Ribbon Hat

This ribbon hat is designed with a brooch holding a rooshed ribbon and a ribbon tied right above.

This flower hat is designed with a lace material as its base a small bouquet of flowers on top.

Flower Hat

This flower hat is designed with a lace material as its base a small bouquet of flowers on top.

This lady's hat is small flowers scattered in the front and ribbon tied above.

Lady's Hat

This lady's hat is small flowers scattered in the front and ribbon tied above.

This lady's large hat is curved to the shape of the head with a ribbon and small plant leaves in the center.

Lady's Large Hat

This lady's large hat is curved to the shape of the head with a ribbon and small plant leaves in the…

This Lady's bonnet is designed with a large layered ribbon tied in the front, and held in place by a square pearl brooch.

Lady's Bonnet

This Lady's bonnet is designed with a large layered ribbon tied in the front, and held in place by a…

This lady's bonnet is designed with a lace ribbon and includes a ribbon that ties around the head to hold the bonnet in place.

Lady's Bonnet

This lady's bonnet is designed with a lace ribbon and includes a ribbon that ties around the head to…

This lady's hat is designed with a small bouquet of flowers on top.

Lady's Hat

This lady's hat is designed with a small bouquet of flowers on top.

This decorative had is designed with tied ribbon and flowers along the back.

Decorative Hat

This decorative had is designed with tied ribbon and flowers along the back.

This decorative had is designed with tied ribbon and flowers.

Decorative Hat

This decorative had is designed with tied ribbon and flowers.

This decorative had is designed with tied ribbon.

Decorative Hat

This decorative had is designed with tied ribbon.

This late 19th century winter dress is designed with a cape that is worn over the dress and a scarf. The lady is also wearing a tied ribbon on her head with feathers in the center.

Late 19th Century Winter Dress

This late 19th century winter dress is designed with a cape that is worn over the dress and a scarf.…

This floral hat is has a curved had with two stemmed flowers.

Floral Hat

This floral hat is has a curved had with two stemmed flowers.

This hat is designed with flowers and a bow on top.

Hat

This hat is designed with flowers and a bow on top.

This lady's afternoon dress has a top that is designed with a floral print. It it includes a hat that is designed with flowers and a bow tied in the back.

Lady's Afternoon Dress

This lady's afternoon dress has a top that is designed with a floral print. It it includes a hat that…

This late 19th century hat is designed with a small bouquet of flowers in the front and a bow in the back.

Late 19th Century Hat

This late 19th century hat is designed with a small bouquet of flowers in the front and a bow in the…

This late 19th Century Dress is shown front and back. It is designed with puffed sleeves and a bow on the chest. The skirt part of the dress has a slit on the side tied with three bows.

Late 19th Century Dress

This late 19th Century Dress is shown front and back. It is designed with puffed sleeves and a bow on…

This double breasted coat and skirt is a late 19th century design with puffed sleeves. It is shown front and back.

Double Breasted Coat and Skirt

This double breasted coat and skirt is a late 19th century design with puffed sleeves. It is shown front…

This coat and skirt is a late 19th century design with puffed sleeves. It is shown front and back.

Coat and Skirt

This coat and skirt is a late 19th century design with puffed sleeves. It is shown front and back.

This late 19th century dress is fitted with puffed sleeves. It is shown front and back.

Late 19th Century Dress

This late 19th century dress is fitted with puffed sleeves. It is shown front and back.

This cape wrap is a late 19th century dress with a bow in the front and back.

Cape Wrap

This cape wrap is a late 19th century dress with a bow in the front and back.

This lady's coat is a late 19th century design shown in it's front and back view. It is fitted with puffed sleeves a narrow waist and a flared bottom.

Lady's Coat

This lady's coat is a late 19th century design shown in it's front and back view. It is fitted with…

This cutaway coat is a late 19th century design with puffed sleeves and three buttons. It is shown in its front and back view.

Cutaway Coat

This cutaway coat is a late 19th century design with puffed sleeves and three buttons. It is shown in…

The fitted jacket is a lady's late 19th century design shown in front and back views. It has puffed sleeves, a fitted waist, and a double ripple skirt like style on the bottom.

Fitted Jacket

The fitted jacket is a lady's late 19th century design shown in front and back views. It has puffed…

This lady's blouse is a late 19th century design shown in front and back view. It has puffed sleeves, a rippled material that covers the shoulders, and a ribbon that ties at the waist.

Lady's Blouse

This lady's blouse is a late 19th century design shown in front and back view. It has puffed sleeves,…

This layered skirt is a late 19th century design shown in its front and back view. It has a peplum over the skirt, which is an apron like style.

Layered Skirt

This layered skirt is a late 19th century design shown in its front and back view. It has a peplum over…

This flounce skirt is a late 19th century design shown in front and back view. It has a flounce or ripple style in the front that is held up by a bow on each side. Its back is in a fluted style.

Flounce Skirt

This flounce skirt is a late 19th century design shown in front and back view. It has a flounce or ripple…

This long rippled skirt is a late 19th century design. It has a ruffle like material that drapes the front and back of the skirt.

Long Rippled Skirt

This long rippled skirt is a late 19th century design. It has a ruffle like material that drapes the…

This girl's hat is a late 19th century design. It is curved to shape the head and has a large bow in the front.

Girl's Hat

This girl's hat is a late 19th century design. It is curved to shape the head and has a large bow in…

This late 19th Century misses outfit is shown in its front and back view. It is comprised of a double breasted jacket that has puffed sleeves, and a long flared skirt.

Late 19th Century Misses Outfit

This late 19th Century misses outfit is shown in its front and back view. It is comprised of a double…

The head and leg of the stork, a bird in the Ciconiidae family of storks, herons, and egrets.

Stork Head and Leg

The head and leg of the stork, a bird in the Ciconiidae family of storks, herons, and egrets.

The head and leg of the heron, a bird in the Ardeidae family of wading birds.

Heron Head and Leg

The head and leg of the heron, a bird in the Ardeidae family of wading birds.

The head and leg of the crane, a bird in the Gruidae family of cranes.

Crane Head and Leg

The head and leg of the crane, a bird in the Gruidae family of cranes.

"Medieval Griffin. Porch of the Duomo, Verona, Italy. GRIFFIN. In mythology, an imaginary animal supposed to be generated between the lion and the eagle, and to combine the head, front, and wings of an eagle with the body and hind quarters of a lion." -Whitney, 1911

Griffin

"Medieval Griffin. Porch of the Duomo, Verona, Italy. GRIFFIN. In mythology, an imaginary animal supposed…

"Griffin, from a Greek Sarcophagus. GRIFFIN. In mythology, an imaginary animal supposed to be generated between the lion and the eagle, and to combine the head, front, and wings of an eagle with the body and hind quarters of a lion." -Whitney, 1911

Griffin

"Griffin, from a Greek Sarcophagus. GRIFFIN. In mythology, an imaginary animal supposed to be generated…

"Upper parts uniform rust-red, with a bronzy lustre. Concealed portions of quills fuscous. Greater the median wing-coverts blackish near the end, then conspicuously tipped with white. Bastard quills like the coverts. Tail like the back, the lateral feathers with paler ends. Under pars white, more or less strongly tinged, especially on the breast, flanks, and crissum, with tawney or pale cinnamon-brown, the breast and sides marked with a profusion of well-defined spots of dark brown, oval in front, becoming more linear posteriorly. Throat immaculate, bordered with a necklace or spots; middle of belly and under tail-coverts likewise unspotted. Bill quite straight, black, with yellow base of the lower mandible; feet pale; iris yellow or orange." Elliot Coues, 1884

Brown Thrasher

"Upper parts uniform rust-red, with a bronzy lustre. Concealed portions of quills fuscous. Greater the…

"Bill shorter than head, comparatively stout at base, very acute at tip, the culmen quite convex, the gonys just appreciably concave, Tarsus a little longer that the middle tow an claw. 3d and 4th primaries about equal and longest, 5th and 6th successively slightly shorter, 2 d equal to 7th, 1st equal to penultimae secondary in the closed wing. Entire upper parts, including surfaces of wings and tail, uniform dull pale grayish-brown, with narrow, faintly-rusty edge of the wing-coverts and inner quills, and equally obscure whitish tipping of the tail-feathers. No maxillary nor auricular streaks; no markings about the head except slight speckling on the cheeks. Under parts brownish-white, palest (nearly white) on the belly and throat, more numerous small arrow-head spots on the color of the back. Bill light-colored at base below." Elliot Coues, 1884

Arizona Thrasher

"Bill shorter than head, comparatively stout at base, very acute at tip, the culmen quite convex, the…

"Upper parts uniform ashy-brown; wings and tail similar, but rather purer and darker brown, the former crossed with two white bars formed by the tips of the coverts, the latter tipped with white. Below dull white, often tinged with rusty, especially behind, and thickly marked with small, sharp, triangular spots of dark brown or blackish. These spots are all perfectly distinct, covering the lower parts excepting the throat, lower belly, and crissum; becoming smaller anteriorly, they run up each side of the throat in a maxillary series bounding the immaculate area. Sides of the head finely speckled, and auriculars streaked; bill black, lightening at base below, little longer than that of H. rufas, though decidedly curved." Elliot Coues, 1884

St. Lucas Thrasher

"Upper parts uniform ashy-brown; wings and tail similar, but rather purer and darker brown, the former…

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

Horse Trail, Black and White

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

Horse Trail, Color

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

Horse Trail, Outline

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

Horse Trail, Silhouette

This sign indicates that a horse trail is located nearby.

"No spots anywhere; wings and tail without decided barring or tipping. Bill as long as the head or longer, bow-shaped, black. Wings very much shorter that the tail. Above, dark oily olive-brown, the wings and tail similar, but rather purer brown. Below, a paler shade of the color of the upper parts, the belly and crissum strongly rusty-brown, the throat definitely whitish in marked contrast, and not bordered by decided maxillary streaks. Cheeks and auriculars blackish-brown with sharp whitish shaft streaks." Elliot Coues, 1884

California Thrasher

"No spots anywhere; wings and tail without decided barring or tipping. Bill as long as the head or longer,…

"Bill shorter that head, slender and compressed throughout, higher that broad at the nostrils, about straight, but seeming to be slightly recurved, owing to a sort of upward tilting of the superior mandible; culmen, notched near the end; gonys convex. Nostrils linear, opening beneath a large scale partly covered with feathers. No rictal vibrissae, nor any trace of bristles or bristle-tipped feathers about the nostrils. Plumage soft, lustreless, remarkably full and compact, water-proof. Body stout, thick set. Habits aquatic." Elliot Coues, 1884

European Dipper

"Bill shorter that head, slender and compressed throughout, higher that broad at the nostrils, about…

"Adult, in summer: Slaty-plumbeous, paler below, inclining on the head to sooty-brown. Quills and tail-feathers fuscous. Eyelids usually white. Bill black; feet yellowish." Elliot Coues, 1884

American Dipper

"Adult, in summer: Slaty-plumbeous, paler below, inclining on the head to sooty-brown. Quills and tail-feathers…

Wheatear male has a bluish-gray back, black patch on ear, a white rump and sides of tail, and black wings. Female is buffer with a brown back.

Wheatear

Wheatear male has a bluish-gray back, black patch on ear, a white rump and sides of tail, and black…

"Bill shorter than head, slender, straight, depressed at base, compressed at end, notched. Wings long, pointed, the tip formed by the 2d-4th quills, the 1st spurious, scarcely or not one-fourth as long as the 2d. Tail much shorter than wing, square. Tarsi booted, but with 4 scutella below in front; long and slender, much exceeding the middle toe and claw; lateral toes of about equal lengths, very short, the tips of their claws not reaching the base of the middle claw; claws little curved; feet thus adapted to terrestrial habits." Elliot Coues, 1884

Stone Chats

"Bill shorter than head, slender, straight, depressed at base, compressed at end, notched. Wings long,…

"in full plumage: Rich azure-blue, the ends of the wing-quills blackish; throat, breast, and sides of the body chestnut; belly and crissum white or bluish-white. The blue sometimes extends around the head on the sides and often fore part of the chin, so that chestnut is cut off from the bill." Elliot Coues, 1884

Eastern Blue-Bird

"in full plumage: Rich azure-blue, the ends of the wing-quills blackish; throat, breast, and sides of…

"Field-gun Carriage. A, stock. B, cheek. a, lunette; b, trail-plate; c, c, pointing-rings; d, handle; e, e, prolonge-hooks; f, wheel-guard plate; g, lock-chain bolt, nut, and washer; h, turn buckle, chain, and hasp for sponge and rammer; i, stop for rammer-head; k, ear-plate for worm; l, elevating-screw; m, under-strap; n, implement-hook; o, D-ring for hand-spike; q, trunnion-plate; r, cap-square; s, s, cap-square chains and keys; 1, prolonge; 2, sponge and rammer; 3, hand-spike." -Whitney, 1911

Field Gun Carriage

"Field-gun Carriage. A, stock. B, cheek. a, lunette; b, trail-plate; c, c, pointing-rings; d, handle;…

Reynard the Fox bets Bruin the Bear that he cannot eat a lot of honey without getting an upset stomach. He takes him to a tree outside of a carpenter's house. Bruin gets his head stuck in the tree while the village is after the bear.

Reynard the Fox: Bruin is Stuck

Reynard the Fox bets Bruin the Bear that he cannot eat a lot of honey without getting an upset stomach.…