Bird stamps from British Honduras.

Bird stamps from British Honduras.

Friday, August 03, 2012
British Honduras was a British colony that is now the independent nation of Belize. First colonised by Spaniards in the 17th century, the territory on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, became a British crown colony from 1862 until 1964, when it became self-governing. 

Belize became fully independent from the United Kingdom in 1981. Belize was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas. 

The Treaty of Versailles (1783) between Britain and Spain, gave the British rights to cut logwood between the Hondo and Belize rivers. 

In 1862, the Settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras was declared a British colony called British Honduras, and the crown's representative was elevated to a lieutenant governor, subordinate to the governor of Jamaica.

Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
1962.01   02.04.1962   Definitives   Upright wmk   
Great Curassow Crax rubra Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii Scarlet Macaw Ara macao Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena Red-footed Booby Sula sula Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma
1c     8     Great Curassow    Crax rubra     
2c     231     Red-legged Honeycreeper    Cyanerpes cyaneus     
3c     61     Northern Jacana    Jacana spinosa     
4c     119     Great Kiskadee    Pitangus sulphuratus     
5c     231     Passerini's Tanager    Ramphocelus passerinii     
10c     73     Scarlet Macaw    Ara macao     
15c     88     Slaty-tailed Trogon    Trogon massena     
25c     31     Red-footed Booby    Sula sula     
50c     104     Keel-billed Toucan    Ramphastos sulfuratus     
1$     30     Magnificent Frigatebird    Fregata magnificens     
2$     100     Rufous-tailed Jacamar    Galbula ruficauda     
5$     228     Montezuma Oropendola    Psarocolius montezuma     
1964.01   03.02.1964   Overprint SELF GOVERNMENT 1964 on 1962.01      
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus Red-footed Booby Sula sula
4c     119     Great Kiskadee    Pitangus sulphuratus     
25c     31     Red-footed Booby    Sula sula     
1964.02   20.04.1964   Overprint SELF GOVERNMENT 1964 on 1962.01      
Great Curassow Crax rubra Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa Scarlet Macaw Ara macao
1c     8     Great Curassow    Crax rubra     
3c     61     Northern Jacana    Jacana spinosa     
10c     73     Scarlet Macaw    Ara macao     
1966.01   01.07.1966   Overprint DEDICATION OF... on 1962.01      
Great Curassow Crax rubra Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus Scarlet Macaw Ara macao Red-footed Booby Sula sula
1c     8     Great Curassow    Crax rubra     
3c     61     Northern Jacana    Jacana spinosa     
4c     119     Great Kiskadee    Pitangus sulphuratus     
10c     73     Scarlet Macaw    Ara macao     
25c     31     Red-footed Booby    Sula sula     
1967.01   16.02.1967   Definitives   Sideways wmk   1962.01
1c     8     Great Curassow    Crax rubra     
4c     119     Great Kiskadee    Pitangus sulphuratus     
5c     231     Passerini's Tanager    Ramphocelus passerinii     
50c     104     Keel-billed Toucan    Ramphastos sulfuratus     
1967.02   28.11.1967   Definitives   Sideways wmk   1962.01
2c     231     Red-legged Honeycreeper    Cyanerpes cyaneus     
10c     73     Scarlet Macaw    Ara macao     
15c     88     Slaty-tailed Trogon    Trogon massena     









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