The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 for the Royal Society'

for the Royal Society'

View through an archway with three figures beneath it

of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month'

Two views of the Tower of London with boats on the River Thames

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' mb-code 00382812 for the Royal Society''Coccothraustes purpurea', the purple gross beak, and 'Toxicodendron folijs alatis fructu purpureo pyri formi sparso', the poison wood (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Loxigilla violacea, the greater Antillean bullfinch; Metopium toxiferum, the Florida poisonwood). Plate 40 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal