The little owl Sargeant View of Queen Elizabeth's Lodge

View of Queen Elizabeth's Lodge which was situated at the bottom of a garden belonging to Sir Thomas Fowler in Islington

View of Daniel Defoe in the pillory at Temple Bar

Battle Bridge is the area now known as King's Cross

Richard Shaw

The little owl Sargeant View of Queen Elizabeth's LodgeBird identified by Catesby as 'Noctua aurita minor', the little owl (modern scientific name: Megascops asio, the eastern screech owl). Plate 7 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 Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731