A typed note on the backboard lists the birds depicted: '....Desert Birds - left to right/Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius Cursor bannerman;/Houbara Bustards Chlamydotis undulata fuerteventurae/Black-bellied Sandgrouse Ptevocles orientalis avagonica/Trumpeter Finch Erylmospiza gilhaginea curratum/Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus cussularum/Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940)/Birds of Canary Islands painted for Dr David Bannerman.'