The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 View of a house in

View of a house in Chick Lane

The plate is inscribed: 'The Short-tailed Pie

View through an archway with three figures beneath it

were faced with the stark choice between starvation and prostitution

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 View of a house in'Coccothraustes purpurea', the purple gross beak, and 'Toxicodendron folijs alatis fructu purpureo pyri formi sparso', the poison wood (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Loxigilla violacea, the greater Antillean bullfinch; Metopium toxiferum, the Florida poisonwood). Plate 40 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal