'The Curasso-Bird, and the Cushew-Bird' mb-height 5234 taken off the head Image

taken off the head Image 3- the surface of the same muscles which lie next to the bones Image 4- the motion of the eye-lid Plate 1 from Human Physiognomy Explain'd: In the Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion by James Parsons FRS (London

Church of St Margaret

14th February 1984

House in Holborn

'The Curasso-Bird, and the Cushew-Bird' mb-height 5234 taken off the head ImageOrnithological study of two South American birds: figure 1 the Great curassow Crax rubra and figure 2 the Helmeted curassow Pauxi pauxi. Plate 295 from chapter 85 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'Fig. 1 the Mituporanga of Marggravius. Fig. 2 the Pauxi of Nieremberg, Drawn from Life.' A second, mirrored