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Northwestern Common Kingfisher

Alcedo atthis ispida. SciArt by John Gerrard Keulemans for Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas, Bd. 4 (1091) by Carl R. Hennicke.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

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n20_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Gartenflora. Erlangen :F. Enke,1852-1940. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40080980

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n262_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: A companion to Mr. Bullock's London Museum and Pantherion [London] :Printed for the proprietor,1812. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28995358

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Written and compiled by Robert Ridgway, the first full-time curator of birds at the Smithsonian. He described and named many new species but was conscious that color terms used by other ornithologists' could be difficult to interpret and visualize. He published two books to standardize the vocabulary of colors for naturalists and they are still widely used.

Check out the full book digitized from the Smithsonian Libraries' collection at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Image from page 174 of “A nomenclature of colors for naturalists : and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.” (1886)

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Evening Gown circa 1940s

Creator: Claire McCardell

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I mentioned a while ago that ive been working out at home with random junk including a toolbox, I think I should let you guys know that another of the things i use for weight lifting is a heavy book about the ocean

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Day 278: Cephalopods from the Bay of Naples

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–These images are part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with them! (you could even sell them as a shirt, poster or whatever, no need to credit them!)–

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Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library PALESTINE LIVES! SONGS FROM THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

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Albert Racinet - L’Ornement Polychrome

PLATE III EGYPTIAN ART. JEWELLERY.

"TOMBS,'' says M. Auguste Mariette, "sometimes become historical monuments from the variety of articles placed by the side of the dead. In them are often found the objects which form the groundwork of all collections: amulets, statuettes of the gods, jewels, papyri, etc."

Most of those perfect specimens of Egyptian jewellery which are so invaluable to those engaged in ornamental work have been obtained from the abodes of the dead. The broad and inflexible character of Egyptian design, so often admirably expressed m metal, is especially suited to the work of the lapidary, and we ought to congratulate ourselves on the custom which required that every deacl body should be adorned with at least one necklace.

No. l.-Naos or breastplate of cloisonne enamel, with a tablet below the frieze bearing the name ofRameses II., XIXth Dynasty.-Louvre. No. 2.-Framework of gold, filled in with glass.-Louvre. Both these articles are from the Serapeum of Memphis. (The Serapeum is the mausoleum of A.pis. Thus the god of the Serapeum, that is to say Serapis, is merely A.pis dead.-A.ug. Mariette.) No. 3.-Scarabams of lapis-lazuli with wings of glass beads. (The scarabams, among the Egyptians, was the symbol of immortality.) No. 4.-Necklace from the head of A.pis. Nos. 5, 6, 7 -Bracelets of cloisonne enamel. Nos. 8, 9,-Rings opened out. Nos. 10 to 26.-Ear-rings, necklaces, and amulets. No. 27 .-Sphinx near a stela, composed of the androcephalic lion. (The symbolism of the sphinx has not yet been sufficiently elucidated. According to the Greeks it signified strength, both physical and intellectual.) Nos. 28 to 33,-Jewellery after paintings at Thebes. From the publication of the French Egyptian Commission and 1I. Prisso d'Avesnes. (Monuments egyptiens, 4 vols. folio; Paris, Diclot.)

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Great Eared Nightjars

Lyncornis macrotis.

These wonderful birds, who resemble dragons, live in Southeast Asia, and they are masters of camouflage by blending in seamlessly with their arboreal environs during their daytime respite. At night, they begin their hunt for insects, catching them on the wing.

SciArt by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould for John Gould's Icones Avium (c.1837). View more beautiful bird illustrations from this publication in Biodiversity Heritage Library's Flickr album.

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n43_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The Florist and horticultural journal Philadelphia, Pa. :[s.n.] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41465018

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n30_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : London :Printed for B. White,1771. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52786069

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inden, Jean Jules. 1885. Lindenia : iconographie des Orchidees, Gand [Belgium] : Impr. F. Meyer-van Loo.

Original Caption: Comparettia Falcata Poepp. Et Endl.