Wood scorpion, Euscorpius italicus (Scorpio europaeus) 1, Emperor scorpion, Pandinus imperator (Buthus afer) 2, Scutellera lineata 3, Scutellera signata 4, and channel-billed cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae 5. Scorpions, Scutelleres, Scythrops. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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