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CLAUDE GIBNEY FINCH-DAVIES: ILLUSTRATIONS
CLAUDE GIBNEY FINCH-DAVIES: ILLUSTRATIONS
This website is a tribute to and collection of the illustrated works of Claude Gibney Finch-Davies.
This website is a tribute to and collection of the illustrated works of Claude Gibney Finch-Davies.
Claude Gibney Davies was born in 1875 in Delhi, British India. He changed his surname to Finch-Davies following his marriage in 1916, and his later works do reflect this as he had signed those works later in life. He died in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1920.
I had previously quoted him on the page of plates by J. G. Keulemans for The Ibis, 1875 (link). Specifically I allude to the caption to Plate VI for that publication (Accipiter ovampensis). Also see an example of his painting of the Crowned Eagle in The Unknown Andean Condor (UAC6).
Finch-Davies published a scientific name, Tinnunculus rupicolus rhodesi. Appearing in 1920 in The Ibis (p. 620), it is a synonym of Falco [tinnunculus] rupicolus, the Rock Kestrel. The specimens upon which his name is based were collected in the Matopo Hills and Bulawayo, South Africa. It was described as the "Matopo Kestrel."
Birds of Southern Africa
Birds of Southern Africa
38 images available.
38 images available.
Frontispiece
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (female)
Merops persicus
C. G. Davies. January 15, 1908.
Including this plate, the frontispiece, there were 177 illustrations featured in this volume.
1
Curlew
Numenius arquata
C. G. Davies. August 8, 1915.
2
Ethiopian Snipe (female and male)
Gallinago nigripennis
C. G. Davies. August 29, 1911.
3
Turnstone (male)
Arenaria interpres
C. G. Davies. October 21, 1898.
4
Sacred Ibis (male)
C. G. Davies. August 27, 1910.
5
African Spoonbill (male)
C. G. Davies. March 16, 1911.
6
Hadeda (male)
C. G. Davies. April 16, 1910.
7
Bald Ibis (male)
Geronticus [eremita] calvus
C. G. Davies. August 1, 1910.
8
African Jacana (female)
Actophilornis africanus
C. G. Davies. July 12, 1916.
9
Painted Snipe (female and male)
Rostratula benghalensis
C. G. Davies. September 16, 1911.
10
Cape Rail (female)
C. G. Davies. August 10, 1911.
11
African Crake (male)
C. G. Davies. April 6, 1912.
12
Purple Gallinule (adult)
C. G. Davies. November 9, 1907.
13
African Finfoot (female)
C. G. Davies. July 28, 1910.
14
Hottentot Buttonquail (female)
C. G. Davies. September 28, 1909.
15
Blue Crane (male)
Anthropoides paradisea
C. G. Davies. September 13, 1911.
17
Blue Korhaan (male)
C. G. Davies. November 3, 1909.
18
Red-crested Korhaan (male and immature female)
C. G. Davies. October 30, 1909.
19
Stanley's Bustard
C. G. Davies. June 8, 1910.
20
Kori Bustard (female)
C. G. Davies. December 31, 1909.
23
Common Squacco Heron (female)
Bubulcus ibis
C. G. Davies. March 8, 1912.
24
Cattle Egret (male)
Bubulcus ibis
C. G. Davies. February 6, 1911.
26
Goliath Heron (male)
Ardea goliath
C. G. Davies. May 5, 1907.
28
Water Dikkop (male)
Burhinus vermiculatus
C. G. Davies. November 17, 1904.
29
Crowned Plover (male)
C. G. Davies. July 20, 1916.
30
White-fronted Sandplover (adult)
C. G. Davies. May 16, 1905.
31
Black Oystercatcher (adult)
C. G. Davies. January 14, 1905.
32
Avocet (male)
C. G. Finch-Davies. May 24, 1918.
59
Pygmy Falcon (male and female)
Polihierax semitorquatus
C. G. Davies. December 29, 1910.
60
Lesser Kestrel (male)
Falco naumanni
C. G. Davies. March 3, 1911.
68
Long-crested Eagle (male)
C. G. Davies. November 10, 1907.
69
Verreaux's Eagle (male)
Aquila verreauxii
C. G. Davies. November 29, 1910.
70
Osprey (female)
Pandion haliaetus
C. G. Finch-Davies. February 1, 1919.
71
Secretarybird (male)
Sagittarius serpentarius
C. G. Davies. May{?} 1, 1912.
104
Brown-hooded Kingfisher (male)
Halcyon albiventris
C. G. Davies. December 22, 1906.
105
Pygmy Kingfisher (male and female)
Ceyx pictus
C. G. Davies. August 10, 1907.
These individuals represent the subspecies C. p. natalensis.
106
Half-collared Kingfisher (male)
Alcedo semitorquata
C. G. Davies. January 31, 1907.
107
Giant Kingfisher (male)
Megaceryle maxima
C. G. Davies. December 19, 1906.
108
Pied Kingfisher (male and female)
Ceryle rudis
C. G. Davies. December 8, 1906.
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