Title page with vignette of a species of hawk, possibly the Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, or peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus, with bells on its feet. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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