Lesser cross-bill, Loxia curvirostra minor 1, crucian carp 2, Eurasian curlew, Numenius arquata 3, Hudsonian whimbrel, Numenius hudsonicus 4, blue-crowned trogon, Trogon curucui 5, endangered southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius 6, cuttlefish 7, cypraea shell 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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