His collection of 10,000 bird skins was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum.
He returned to England in 1818 about 760 bird skins.
Others say she is a crone, aged beyond imagining, and always clothed in a heavy garment of bird skins.
The museum also contains 4,500 bird skins (1,100 species) and 1,160 recordings of birds sounds.
The same pocket also held tiny fragments of vellum, so fine that it might have been bird skin.
They made the soles from feathers or bird skins.
He accumulated a collection of over 8000 bird skins at his home.
There are approximately 8,500 bird mounts and 1,500 scientific bird skins.
The use of bird skins to document species has been a standard part of systematic ornithology.
Webb sold over 20,000 eggs and 10,000 bird skins between 1883 and 1903.