Red-legged honeycreeper, Cyanerpes cyaneus 1, black and red Indian creeper 2, bananaquit, Coereba flaveola 3, purple honeycreeper, Cyanerpes caeruleus 4, green honeycreeper, Chlorophanes spiza 5, Lucon creeper 6, Tui, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae 7, and southern double-collared sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus 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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