Nicholas Aylward Vigors
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Nicholas Aylward Vigors was an Irish zoologist and politician. He was known to popularize the classification of birds on the basis of the quinarian system.
Painting, oil on canvas, of a toucan by Vigors, 1831
Vigors described the "Sabine's snipe", shown here in a woodcut from Bewick's British Birds, in 1825.
Plaques to Vigors and John Tyndall in Leighlinbridge
A History of British Birds
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A History of British Birds is a natural history book by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes. Volume 1, Land Birds, appeared in 1797. Volume 2, Water Birds, appeared in 1804. A supplement was publi
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
…in 1895 and by Meinertzhagen in 1926 but was thought to be probably a Wilson's snipe in 1945. Vigors lent a skin for later editions of Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds. Vigors succeeded to his father's estate in 1828. He was MP for the borough of Carlow from 1832 until 1835. He briefly represented County Carlow in…
Title-page of 1847 edition
Plate XLIII from Samuel Pepys's hand-coloured copy of Francis Willughby's 1678 Ornithology
Bewick engraved a wide variety of subjects, such as this depiction of a Chillingham Bull, executed for Marmaduke Tunstall in 1789.
"Foot of the Red-necked Grebe"