EditorialTrochilus magnificus, Print, Streamertail, The streamertails are hummingbirds in the genus Trochilus that is endemic to Jamaica. It is the type genus of the Trochilidae family. Today most authorities consider the two taxa in this genus as separate spec...
EditorialMagnificent riflebird, Ptiloris magnificus (Tufted promerops). Drawn from a specimen in Bullock's Museum. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822.
EditorialWompoo fruit dove, Ptilinopus magnificus. (Magnificent fruit pigeon, Carpophaga magnifica.) After an illustration by Edward Lear. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thi...
EditorialFrilled coquette, Lophornis magnificus, young male (Magnificent hummingbird, Trochilus magnificus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1834.
EditorialMagnificent bird-of-paradise, Diphyllodes magnificus (Paradisea magnifica). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822.
EditorialMagnificent bird-of-paradise, Diphyllodes magnificus (Magnificent paradisea, Paradisea magnifica). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's M...
EditorialWompoo fruit dove, Ptilinopus magnificus, native to Australia. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by Edward Lear from Prideaux John Selby's volume "Pigeons" in Sir William Jardine's "Naturalist's Library: Ornithology,"...