The 'blew jay' and the 'bay-leaved smilax' Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Poultry and Bucklersbury

Poultry and Bucklersbury

or the London Almanack for 1904

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The 'blew jay' and the 'bay-leaved smilax' Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Poultry and Bucklersbury'Pica glandaria caerulea cristata', the blew jay crested jay, perched on a branch of the 'Smilax laevis lauri folio baccis nigris', the bay leaved smilax (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Cyanocitta cristata, the blue jay; Smilax laurifolia, the laurel greenbriar). Plate 15 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