3-011-829 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Recent additions to the Zoological Society's Collection, Regent's Park, [London], 1864. 'The American cuckoo (Guvia piririgua) is of very lively and peculiar habits, and may be seen continually running about - for it is essentially a terrestrial bird - with a piece of gravel or stick in its mouth. The tronial (Cacicus persicus) is one of a starling-like group of American birds, remarkable for their ingenuity in weaving long pendent nests...[Specimens from a group of animals]...imported from various parts of the American continent, and the greater part of them represent species which had previously been brought alive to this country.... the society's [collection] of living animals...now embraces upwards of 1700 individuals from all parts of the world'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.