The 'mock-bird' and the dogwood tree Product:Greetings card George IV seems to be

George IV seems to be dismissing a petition from the Lord Mayor

Henry Cooper

with Islington Church in the distance

as the hippo points out

his first attept at the race

The 'mock-bird' and the dogwood tree Product:Greetings card George IV seems to be'Turdus minor cinereo albus non maculatus', the mock bird, perched on a branch of 'Cornus mas virginiana flosculis', the dogwood tree (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Mimus polyglottos, the northern mockingbird; Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood). Plate 27 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in