Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single Inscribed: 'painted by H

Inscribed: 'painted by H

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Inscription in Latin by Philip Howard

View of a rat catcher holding a cage of rats which is being attacked by a dog

Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single Inscribed: 'painted by HPlate 1 from the paper 'An account of an English bird of the genus Motacilla, supposed to be hitherto unnoticed by British ornithologists', by John Lightfoot, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 8 15. Study of the bird classified and described by John Lightfoot FRS (1735 1788) clergyman and naturalist in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, as Motacilla arundinacea [Acrocephalus arundinaceus]. The bird is shown nesting in a