The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 with figures watching below

with figures watching below

Plate 49 from the paper 'Observations on the genus planaria'

The reference in the heading to a civil war concerns the many rumours circulating during the previous year concerning Louis Napoleon's supposed plot to launch an invasion on Britain

and twist their mouths diagonally

Stephen Mardenborough

The 'red wing'd starling' and the 'broad-leaved candle-berry myrtle' mb-code 1192932 with figures watching below'Sturnus niger alis superne rubentibus', the red winged starling, perched on a branch of the 'Myrtus brabanticae similis caroliniensis humilior', the broad leaved candle berry myrtle (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Agelaius phoeniceus, the red winged blackbird; Morella caroliniensis, the small evergreen bayberry). Plate 13 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London,