The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 26th November 1962

26th November 1962

Plate 358 from chapter 148 of Gleanings of natural history

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The countryside surrounds the church with a clear and bright sky overhead

The 'pigeon of passage' and the 'red oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 26th November 1962'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