'The Curasso-Bird, and the Cushew-Bird' mb-height 5234 Church of St Margaret

Church of St Margaret

14th February 1984

with handwritten annotation 'The Ballance Fish'

Bromley is now in the London borough of Kent

'The Curasso-Bird, and the Cushew-Bird' mb-height 5234 Church of St MargaretOrnithological study of two South American birds: figure 1 the Great curassow Crax rubra and figure 2 the Helmeted curassow Pauxi pauxi. Plate 295 from chapter 85 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'Fig. 1 the Mituporanga of Marggravius. Fig. 2 the Pauxi of Nieremberg, Drawn from Life.' A second, mirrored