The 'towhe' bird, the 'cowpen' bird and the 'black poplar' of Carolina Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 1956 Winter Olympic Games

1956 Winter Olympic Games

Demolition of temporary bridge over Fifth Lock and Roger's Lock

John Bull stands guard over a gigantic pudding studded with the sign saying 'Old England Forever'

16 June 1600

The 'towhe' bird, the 'cowpen' bird and the 'black poplar' of Carolina Size:XS: 20 x 15cm 1956 Winter Olympic Games'Passer niger, oculis rubris', the towhe bird, 'Passer fusca', the cowpen bird, and 'Populus nigra folio maximo gemmis balsamum odoratissimum fundentibus', the black poplar of Carolina (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the eastern towhee; Molothrus ater, the brown headed cowbird; Populus heterophylla, the swamp cottonwood). Plate 34 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama