The birds of Australia, supplement /.London :Printed by Taylor and Francis ... published by the author ...,[1851]-1869..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48517353
Old Hickory Lake, Wilson County, TN. This Osprey was pretty far away and I didn't realize he had two fish until I uploaded. I wonder how/where an Osprey lands when it's carrying a fish in each talon?
An interesting historic illustration from the voluminous Pacific Railroad Surveys (1850's). These, and the similar Mexican Boundary Survey publications have a number of hand-colored lithographs of birds. The artists and lithographers were not credited, but the zoological works were produced under the editorship of Spencer Fullerton Baird. This is a cleaned up version of a scanned image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library:biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11616765