The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Product:Canvas Drawn from life

Drawn from life

a man on horseback and a dog

are not so well known everywhere

Wallingford

On the left is John Bright

The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Product:Canvas Drawn from life'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