The 'white-crown'd pigeon' and the 'cocoa plum' Size:Large: 7 x 5in 1st July 1972

1st July 1972

17th July 1992

with a sheaf of drawings

View of the Custom House and quay from the River Thames

The 'white-crown'd pigeon' and the 'cocoa plum' Size:Large: 7 x 5in 1st July 1972'Columba capite albo', the white crown'd pigeon, with the leaves and fruit of 'Frutex cotini fere folio crasso', the cocoa plum (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Patagioenas leucocephala, the white crowned pigeon; Chrysobalanus icaco, the icaco coco plum or paradise plum). Plate 25 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