Flamingoes watching in astonishment as their companions are slaughtered by a hunter. Initially, the birds never flew from European colonist fowlers with muskets. From an anecdote by Eleazar Albin in a Natural History of Birds, 1731. American flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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