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showing carcasses hanging on hooks and a crush of figures

with their plastic sheets ready to protect them from the rain

'The Boat-Bill' van Dyck Finely dressed menOrnithological study of two specimens of the Boat billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius). Plate 45 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever by George Shaw (published by James Parkinson, 1792). The plate is inscribed: 'C. R. Ryley delt. J. Fittler sculp. CANCROMA COCHLEARIA. THE BOAT BILL. Published. as the Act directs. Octr. 2. 1792. by I. Parkinson. Leverian Museum.' Original: copperplate