Taxidermy: A Large Cased Diorama of Birds Native to North America, circa 1857-1878, by Henry Ward, Late Williams, 2 Vere Street, London, a rare high quality diorama of thirty four various North American birds, comprising - two Blue Jays, Boblink, three Scarlet Tanagers, two Red-Winged Blue birds, two Cedar Waxwings, three Northern Orioles, Ash-Throated Flycatcher, two Eastern Kingbirds, four Eastern Bluebirds, Yellow Warbler, Red-Headed Woodpecker, American Goldfinch, two American Robins, Western Meadowlark, Rusty Blackbird, Brown-Headed Cowbird, Eastern Towhee, Saweet Owl, Killdeer, White-Rumped Sandpiper, Virginia Rail, Northern Flicker, all perched and mounted upon a centrally positioned tree, amidst tall grasses, ferns and fauna, above painted and soil covered groundwork, set against a wash painted back drop, enclosed within a large period floor standing burr walnut vaneered three-glass display case, 113.5cm by 43cm by 146cm, bearing taxidermist's paper trade label to interior lower left.