The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Product:Canvas Inscribed above: 'To be placed

Inscribed above: 'To be placed on Page 155 of Airopaidia'

8th June 1982

c1815 with horse drawn carriages in the front

Wallingford

The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Product:Canvas Inscribed above: 'To be placed'Palumbus migratorius', the pigeon of passage, with the leaves of 'Quercus esculi divisura foliis amplioribus aculeatis', the red oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Ectopistes migratorius, the passenger pigeon; Quercus laevis, the American turkey oak). This bird species is now extinct, the last specimen having died in captivity in 1914. Plate 23 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by