Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird citroen View of St Mary

View of St Mary

An illustration from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake

'Fenians In A Fix'

The building was designed by John Nash

Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird citroen View of St MaryPlate 16 from the paper 'Some acount of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 332 338. Home's paper relays observations by Sir Stamford Raffles on the Edible nest switlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus). Bauer's nine figures are gullet details of these and other birds under magnification. Signed lower left