Bird eggs from India. The eggs are from the jungle fowl,mountain titlark,tailor bird,kestrel,Neilgherry wood pigeon,smaller hoopoe,hawk eagle,velvet-fronted nuthatch,and the cuckoo. This watercolour is plate 58 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 |