Peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus (female 1, male 4), gyr-falcon, Falco rusticolus 2, spotted kestrel, Falco moluccensis 3, shorthorn sculpin, Myoxocephalus scorpius 5, common grenadier, Uraeginthus granatinus 6, long-tailed paradise whydah, Vidua paradisaea 7 and painted bunting, Passerina ciris 8. 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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