The 'Bahama sparrow' and the 'bignonia' songbird Sir Thomas Vezey Strong

Sir Thomas Vezey Strong

with soldiers in the foreground

victims of gearbox trouble and an opening lap accident respectively

for use by the Fellows in their attempts to understand and classify the natural world

The 'Bahama sparrow' and the 'bignonia' songbird Sir Thomas Vezey Strong'Passerculus bicolor bahamiensis', the Bahama sparrow, and 'Bignonia arbor pentaphylla flore roseo majore siliquis planis', the bignonia (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Tiaris bicolor, the black faced grassquit; Tabebuia bahamensis, the white dwarf tabebuia). Plate 37 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