The 'tyrant' and the sassafras Product:Greetings card Chris Britton (bottom)

Chris Britton (bottom)

In 1930 he also won the Targa Florio

in front of a group of spectators

Third and final state of the plate

The 'tyrant' and the sassafras Product:Greetings card Chris Britton (bottom)'Muscicapa corona rubra', the tyrant, and 'Cornus mas odorata, folio trifido margine plano', the sassafras (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Tyrannus tyrannus, the eastern kingbird; Sassafras albidum, the sassafras). Plate 55 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