Black and yellow creeper, brown and white creeper, Certhia americana, Cayenne creeper, Dacnis cayana, extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus, and purre or stint, Calidris alpina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellie's English translation of George Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular, and Henry Chambers' History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, Thomas Kelly, London, 1828. Artist unknown. William Smellie (1740-1795) was a prolific Scottish author, naturalist and translator. His two-volume translation of Buffon first appeared in 1781. Handcoloured copperplate engra

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Black and yellow creeper, brown and white creeper, Certhia americana, Cayenne creeper, Dacnis cayana, extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus, and purre or stint, Calidris alpina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellie's English translation of George Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular, and Henry Chambers' History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, Thomas Kelly, London, 1828. Artist unknown. William Smellie (1740-1795) was a prolific Scottish author, naturalist and translator. His two-volume translation of Buffon first appeared in 1781. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from William Smellie's Natural History, General and Particular, Thomas Kelly, London, 1828.

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