Critically endangered common skate, Dipturus batis 1, pale-throated sloth, Bradypus tridactylus 2, European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus 3, grass snake, Natrix natrix ringed snake 4, common snipe, Gallinago gallinago 5, and white-winged snowfinch, Montifringilla nivalis snow bird 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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