'Le Coq Dodin' [Red-necked phalarope] mb-height 490 is beset on all sides

is beset on all sides by the dogs of war

Lady Hertford (the Regent's mistress) inspects the Venus de Medici

or the humors of Bagnigge Wells'

or Monstrous Works of Nature'

Manchester City players training

'Le Coq Dodin' [Red-necked phalarope] mb-height 490 is beset on all sidesOrnithological study showing a side view of the Red necked phalarope (here described as Tringa hyperborea, modern taxonomy Phalaropus lobatus), shown standing on a small grassy hillock surrounded by water. Plate 20 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper left "Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. XX." Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal