Great spotted cuckoo, Clamator glandarius 1, black-throated trogon, Trogon rufus chrysochloros 2, Asian koel, Eudynamys scolopaceus, male 3, female 4, lesser coucal, Centropus bengalensis 5, and banded bay cuckoo, Cacomantis sonneratii 6. 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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