EditorialLigia melanocephala, Print, Ligidium hypnorum is a species of woodlouse found across Europe and western Asia. It is a fast-moving, active species which rarely grows longer than 9 millimetres (0.35 in). It is dark and shiny, and is similar in appearance...
EditorialMotacilla melanocephala, Print, Wagtail, The wagtails are a genus, Motacilla, of passerine birds in the family Motacillidae. The forest wagtail belongs to the monotypic genus Dendronanthus which is closely related to Motacilla and sometimes included he...
EditorialChettusia melanocephala, Print, Vanellus, Vanellus is the genus of waders which provisionally contains all lapwings except red-kneed dotterel, Erythrogonys cinctus. The name "vanellus" is Latin for "little fan.
EditorialSylvia melanocephala, Print, The Sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) is a common and widespread typical warbler from the Mediterranean region. Like most Sylvia species, it has distinct male and female plumages. The adult male has a grey back, whit...
EditorialManorina garrula, Print, Manorina is a genus of Australian endemic honeyeaters, containing four species: the black-eared miner (M. melanotis) the yellow-throated miner (M. flavigula), the noisy miner (M. melanocephala) and the bell miner (M. melanophry...
EditorialAnthornis melanocephala, Print, The Chatham bellbird (Anthornis melanocephala) is an extinct species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It was endemic to the Chatham Islands., 1845-1848.
EditorialGolden-backed uakari or black-headed uakari, Cacajao melanocephalus (Cacajao, Pithecia melanocephala). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Monkeys, Edinburg...
EditorialGolden-backed uakari or black-headed uakari, Cacajao melanocephalus (Cacajao, Pithecia melanocephala). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Monkeys, Edinburg...
EditorialBlack-headed uakari, Cacajao melanocephalus (Pithecus melanocephala) and black capuchin, Sapajus nigritus cucullatus (Cebus cucullatus). Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Animals, Zurich, 1827.
EditorialGolden-backed uakari, Cacajao melanocephalus (Cacajao monkey, Simia melanocephala). After a drawing by Alexander von Humboldt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1824.
EditorialCrested malimbe, Malimbus malimbicus, and black-headed bunting, Emberiza melanocephala. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natu...
EditorialBlack-headed bunting, Emberiza melanocephala (Black-crowned tanager, Tanagra melanictera). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellan...