Eurasian spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia 1, Barbary ground squirrel, Atlantoxerus getulus 2, southern flying squirrel, Glaucomys volans 3, American red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 4, eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus 5, and fox squirrel, Sciurus niger 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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