Caption reads: Emerald Cuckoo. Chalcites Hodgsoni. India, Burma, Siam, Ceylon. Drawn from nature by John Gould (1804-1881)
Date from postmark. Postcard cut to current size. Message: ...you have been ill; hope you are all right now?; Winter about to set in; Harriet writes cheerfully, tho [sic] keeps hoping arthritis and laureness [?] will be over; did you see the Queen; I did on T. V.