Pharomacrus Antisianus Size:16" x 16" Created for the Department of

Created for the Department of the Interior

From the first edition of Haeckel's work on the new arts around 1900

just north of Arabia

Zone Map of North America bird migration from 1910

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Pharomacrus Antisianus Size:16" x 16" Created for the Department ofJohn Gould, regarded by many as the greatest bird artist and publisher in Britain, produced fifteen folio sets during his career. The book on view is dedicated to a tropical bird called the "trogon." In his preface to the book, Gould wrote: "If not strictly elegant in form, the Trogons in the brilliancy of their plumage are surpassed only by the Trochilidae [toucans]: their splendor amply compensates for every other defect." The illustrations for this