Crested cardinal 1, Dominican cardinal 2, carp 3, cassowary 4, cat-fish 5, Patagonian cavy 6, cayopolin or banded mongoose 7, civet 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Moses Harris from William Frederic Martyn’s A New Dictionary of Natural History, Harrison, London, 1785. Pseudonym of William Fordyce Mavor, Scottish priest, teacher and writer, 1758-1837.

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