Post mortem of a trained cormorant named 'Hobblegobble': partial dissection showing the head and stomach. Watercolour by F.H. Salvin, 1876.

1876

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 55.1 x 77.2 cm

'Hobblegobble', a trained cormorant aged 8 or 9. This bird had been lame through life from tumours on the pad or cushion of each foot which I think had been originally caused by feeding it on meat when young. It died suddenly, March 20th 1876. F.H. Salvin Lettering (hand-written in pencil by F.H. Salvin) includes annotated parts of the bird's anatomy

F.H. Salvin (1817-1904) was an authority on falconry and a student of animal behaviour. He lived in Surrey, and was the owner of Sutton Place (Oxford dictionary of national biography)

Wellcome Collection 565719i