Wild boar, Sus scrofa 1, boat-billed heron, Cochlearius cochlearius 2, black-hooded oriole, Oriolus xanthornus 3, New Guinea booby or penguin 4, gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua 5, and white-collared booby or penguin 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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