The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in eating a landed fish within

eating a landed fish within reeds

'Young Woman in White'

Planned improvements to Hyde Park would mean that the statue would have to be moved

Above and below the central device reads the inscription T Salmon

Girl in a 1948 vintage Austin J40 pedal car

The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in eating a landed fish within'Picus major alis aureis', the gold winged wood pecker, perched on a branch of 'Quercus castaneae foliis', the chesnut oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Colaptes auratus, the northern flicker; Quercus michauxii, the swamp chestnut oak). Plate 18 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.