Adjutant or Argala [gizzard] weight View of the Colosseum

View of the Colosseum

Antiquities found in the excavations for the works of the new London Bridge

with people and baskets

This is a male specimen

with a duster and brush in each hand

Adjutant or Argala [gizzard] weight View of the ColosseumPlate 3, from the paper 'A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the Ardea argala, the Casuarius emu, and the long legged Casowary from New South Wales', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 77 81. View of the gizzard of the Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius). The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and the name 'Adjutant.' Below, the pencil inscription 'Adjutant