Magpie and Bittern Eggs Hand Colored Plate

Hand-colored lithographic plate, approximately 10.25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H.L., Illustrations of British Birds, lithographer H.L. Meyer. Image is taken from the Longman and Co. gilt-edge folio edition of Meyer's Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs which was published 1835-1841, see W.G. Hale.  Image is of an magpie egg and bittern egg.