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  • Hoxa-2 in situ hybridisation in chick embryo
  • Hoxa-2 in situ hybridisation in chick embryo
  • Cross-section through the optic vesicle (early eye), chick
  • Engraving: Growth of chick embryo at days 19-20, 1625.
  • Engraving: Growth of chick embryo at days 21-24, 1625.
  • 6-day old chick embryo viewed under a stereo microscope, LM
  • 6-day old chick embryo viewed under a stereo microscope, LM
  • A chick with an open mouth expecting food. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A chick hatching from an egg representing the Children with AIDS charity. Colour lithograph.
  • Brain of a chick: four figures showing dissections of the brain. Watercolour, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca. 1905.
  • Haeckel's Evolution of Man. This plate represents the embryos of two of the lower, and two of the higher Vertebrates in three different stages: of a fish (F); of an amphibian (salamandar,S); of a reptile (tortoise,T); and of a bird (chick,A).
  • Group of day-old chicks.
  • Two hens feeding with chicks in the foreground with a broody hen with younger chicks behind. Etching by H Bonnart.
  • A microCT 3D reconstruction of a 10-day-old chick embryo, as seen from the right hand side. The inner ear is depicted, with the semicircular canals (the body's balance organ) and the cochlea (which converts sound waves into electrical impulses) shown in green. The otic capsule, a cartilaginous structure surrounding the inner ear which develops into part of the sphenoid bone, is shown in blue.
  • A broody hen surrounded by her chicks. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • Birds on a farm: cockerels, hens, chicks and doves. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.
  • An owl defending her chicks from an attacking eagle. Engraving by F. Place, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • Dissections of chicks of various species: eleven figures, including details of the feet. Lithograph by J. Erxleben (?), 1840/1860?.
  • Willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus): male and female with chicks. Reproduction of a painting by J. J. Audubon, ca. 1827.
  • A dog on a chain is watching a couple of chicks trying to reach his food bowl. Line block.
  • Two taylor bird chicks peering out of a nest made out of a plant leaf. Etching by J. Le Keux.
  • An old woman sits reading at a table outside a house while three children watch the hen with her chicks. Engraving.
  • A hen defending its chicks from the playful advances of a puppy. Etching by C. G. Lewis after E. H. Landseer.
  • A cockerel with hens and chicks looking for food outside a pig sty. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • Agriculture: a plan for an improved dairy, dairy paraphernalia, and an artificial incubator for newly-hatched chicks. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • An eagle swooping for some chicks and being attacked by a cockerel and a farmer waving a broom. Engraving by F. Place, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • Men digging minerals; a phoenix being reborn; a pelican feeding its chicks with its blood; symbols of the four elements; an apothecary's shop. Engraving by J. Drapentier, 1677.
  • Various birds: a swan on the water, a hen and chicks on the ground and others perched in a tree. Etching by W. Hollar, ca. 1670, after F. Barlow.
  • Chicken knee cartilage
  • Mite infested chicken legs