Within the days when color printing was extraordinarily costly, the Avicultural Society had particular appeals for funds to help the looks in Avicultural Journal of the occasional color plate. A well known chicken artist was then commissioned. Though the entire run of the Society’s magazines could be discovered on-line, the plates not often see the sunshine of day. Subsequently I made a decision to point out one, every so often, on this web site. That is the twentieth within the collection.
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The artist for this plate was Chloe Elizabeth Talbot Kelly (born 1927) who went on as an example various subject guides. Her work of birds seem in artwork gross sales. She started portray in 1945 on the Pure Historical past Museum in London.
The article accompanying the plate was written by Alan Reece Longhurst (1925-2023). He was a well known oceanographer and skilled on plankton communities who spent a short while working in fisheries in New Zealand. He was born in Plymouth and after 4 years within the military he returned to London and college life. He graduated in entomology after which proceeded to a PhD on the ecology of notostracans. Fisheries analysis in West Africa then adopted (with the quick interval in New Zealand within the center). Spells in Plymouth and the USA have been adopted by a profession in Canada. He turned Director-Common of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia.
The Gray-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) is broadly distributed in Africa. Like many kingfishers it doesn’t reside as much as its title. It’s terrestrial, by no means diving for aquatic prey, feeding on Bugs, different invertebrates, mice; lizards, frogs and so forth.. It does dive into water however solely to wash.
Avicultural Journal 66, 1960