Extinct Species	Endangered Species	Vulnerable Species
THE LOST AND VANISHING series portrayed extinct and endangered birds of North America, was a traveling exhibition in support of the World Wild-Life Fund.

THE BIRDS

Twenty of the species in this series are taken from the birds listed in the Red Book of the United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service.

Also included are five North American birds which have become extinct since the arrival of Europeans to this continent. The first to disappear was the Great Auk of which the last was seen in 1844. Hundreds of thousands of these flightless "penguins," as the early sailors called them, were slaughtered to be salted down as provisions on the whaling ships.

Following this, the Labrador Duck also became extinct in 1844. The Carolina Parakeet and the famed Passenger Pigeon met their ends in 1914 and in 1932 the last Heath Hens died.Sadly, it appears certain that the Eskimo Curlew is gone also for there has been no confirmed sighting of this marsh and shore bird since 1963.

The other birds depicted in this series of prints are known to be in varying degrees of peril from the encroachment of that most dangerous animal... man.

THE EDITION

The original paintings for this series were not offered for public sale, but have been preserved as a group and exhibited around the country for the benefit of the World Wild-Life Fund. A limited edition of colour lithographs was produced to make available a few of the works depicting these fascinating extinct and endangered North American birds.

The prints are colour lithographs measuring twenty-four by thirty-four inches. Great pains have been taken to endure fidelity to the original paintings, with the proofing personally supervised and corrected by the artist. Each final print has been inspected for quality by the artist, then signed, dated and numbered in pencil by Robin Hill.

The full folio of twenty-five prints is limited to an edition of three hundred and fifty, plus nine sets to be hand-bound into nine books by the artist. As the edition for each bird is completed the plates are destroyed.