Author Topic: Identifying this bird please... and an armiger search.  (Read 7794 times)

Offline J. Hemsley

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Re: Identifying this bird please... and an armiger search.
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 06 January 15 13:53 GMT (UK) »
Though I've determined that the seal's bird most resembles the bird from plate 19 fig. 64. Though frustratingly, that bird is not named so I cannot identify it, again it comes from the above source. What do you think?

Are they the same? And what bird is pl 19, fig. 16 (remember it's not a crane/stork, bustard, dove nor raven)?


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Re: Identifying this bird please... and an armiger search.
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 06 January 15 15:10 GMT (UK) »
Could it be a ring-dove, or a pigeon?

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Re: Identifying this bird please... and an armiger search.
« Reply #11 on: Friday 03 March 17 19:30 GMT (UK) »
I am currently identifying a seal and whether it will help me or not confirm ancestry, as I've been stuck around 200 years ago, with an earlier birth of about 1785-1787.

Fairbairn's Crests is the only one I could find, with drawings in a 2nd volume, fortunately it is searchable online, with a downloadable large PDF.

Volume 1 with Descriptions and part of the Plates Index
https://ia601407.us.archive.org/34/items/fairbairnsbookof01fair/fairbairnsbookof01fair.pdf

Volume 2 with other part of Plates Index and Plates of the Crests
https://archive.org/stream/FairbairnsBookOfCrestsV2#page/n29/mode/2up/search/Coe

In the Plates Index the first number denotes the Plate and second number relates to the Crest.

All the best Mark