Ornithology
Semioptera wallacii from Elliot's A monograph of the Paradiseidae
Astrapia Nigra from Elliot's A monograph of the Paradiseidae or birds of paradise
Diphyllodes respublica from Elliot's A monograph of the Paradiseidae
Cicinnurus regius from Elliot's A monograph of the Paradiseidae
Carolina parrot, Canada flycatcher, hooded flycatcher, and green black capped flycatcher from Wilson's American ornithology
Great horn owl, barn owl, meadow mouse, red bat, small headed flycatcher, and hawk owl from Wilson's American orinthology
Trappen from Oken's Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände
Wasser-hühner (waterfowl) from Oken's Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände
Rhea Darwinii from Darwin's The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
This image showing a lithograph from Daniel Giraud Elliot’s A monograph of the Paradiseidae appears in Elliot’s Jewels: Birds in Paradise in Natural Histories, by Joel L. Cracraft, the Lamont Curator of Birds in the Ornithology Department in the Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. Cracraft writes that this species, Semioptera wallacii, was discovered by Alfred Russell Wallace, “… the same year that he wrote his revolutionary paper on natural selection.”
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