3-011-831 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Recent additions to the Zoological Society's Collection, Regent's Park, 1864. 'These have all been 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 blue tanager (Orchesticus ater), and the pileated jay (Cyanocorax cyanopogon), are both from the forests of Brazil...The woodpecker...is from the more northern forests of the New World...The Brazilian monkey (Pithecia Satanas) is from the banks of the Amazon; the oppossum (Didelphys virginidux)...with its numerous family of young ones clinging around it, is from the Southern States of the great Northern division of the American continent. The species portrayed in the lower figure are all from the tropical part of the New World. The cuckoo (Guvia piririgua) is of very lively and peculiar habits...The tronial (Cacicus persicus) is one of a starling-like group of American birds, remarkable for their ingenuity in weaving long pendent nests. The whistling duck (Dendrocygna arborea), from Jamaica; and the little green bittern, from Para (Butorides virescens), do not differ materially from their well-known allies of the same groups in habits'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.