The 'rice-bird' Helena British athlete

British athlete

to the left a woman is holding a stick over her kneeling husband and twisting his nose

The percentage of profits made by societies sometimes were as high as fifty per cent

showing Cumberland Villas and part of Chester Terrace

The 'rice-bird' Helena British athleteBird identified by Catesby as 'Hortulanus caroliniensis', the rice bird (modern scientific name: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the bobolink), perched on a stalk of rice, Oryza sativa. Plate 14 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