Joseph Smit was a Dutch-born artist active in the second half of the 19th century. He worked as a lithographer on many major ornithological works of his time, including the Catalogue of Birds in the (British) Museum and Daniel Elliott's monographs on the Phasianeidae and Paradiseida. Like his contemporaries Joseph Wolf and John G. Keulemans, whose equal he definitely was, Smit illustrated frequently for the important scientific journal Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. The plates offered here are handcolored lithographs by Smit, prepared for the PZS, between the years 1866 and 1888.