Smear dab, Limanda limanda 1, yellow-rumped cacique, Cacicus cela 2, Cape starling, Lamprotornis nitens 3, Mexican grackle, Quiscalus mexicanus 4, rock day-fly 5, white winged day-fly 6, moose deer, Alces alces, (female) 7, and reindeer, Rangifer tarandus 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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