Golden-winged trumpeter running to greet Vosmaer when he steps on shore. The bird spread its wings and trumpeted for him alone. Arnout Vosmaer was a Dutch naturalist and director of the natural history collection and menagerie of the Prince of Orange. Grey-winged trumpeter or agami, Psophia crepitans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astro

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Golden-winged trumpeter running to greet Vosmaer when he steps on shore. The bird spread its wings and trumpeted for him alone. Arnout Vosmaer was a Dutch naturalist and director of the natural history collection and menagerie of the Prince of Orange. Grey-winged trumpeter or agami, Psophia crepitans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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