Long-armed ape or gibbon 1, common ass 2, Atherine fish 3, Attagen or sand grouse 4, Avoset 5, common auk or razorbill 6, extinct Great Auk 7, and Little Auk 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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