Bird eggs from India. The eggs are from the plain wren warbler,red-backed shrike,hill fantail,chestnut-throated finch,avadavat,bungalow swallow,spurfowl,black-headed titmouse,red-eyed babbler,white-eye,tit lark,hill myna,red and yellow breasted woodpecker,and the laughing thrush. This watercolour is plate 19 from 'Neilgherry Birds and Miscellaneous' (1858) by the Indian-born British artist and amateur ornithologist Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). This book consists mostly of her illustrations of the flora and fauna of the Nilgiri Hills (then known as the Neilgherry Hills) in the state of Tamil Nadu,in southern India |