'Wattled Bee Eater' mb-code NTS_BTN_5_85 Pictured here at Syon House

Pictured here at Syon House Antique Grounds

'England's Intervention

St John's Hill

showing the Angel Public House at no 85 and sewer pipes waiting to be laid

'Cave Canem

'Wattled Bee Eater' mb-code NTS_BTN_5_85 Pictured here at Syon HouseOrnithological study of a male Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata), native to Australia. Plate 6 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The Wattled Bee eater is the size of a missel thrush under the eye, on each side, is a kind of wattle, of an orange colour; the middle of the belly is yellow; the tail is wedge shaped Thi sbird seems to be peculiar to New Holland,