A king bird of paradise (Cicinnurus regius) specimen from the Natural History Museum collection at Tring (Photograph: Natalie Lawrence); below: ‘Rex Avium Paradisearum,’ woodcut of Emanuel Sweert’s ‘king bird,’ from the Exoticorum libri decem, p.362.
Copyright: Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library [Classmark L.2.6].