Critically endangered spotted houndshark, Triakis maculata 1, Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia 2, Hebridean sheep, Ovis aries 3, red-breasted blackbird, Sturnella militaris 4, and caracal, Caracal caracal 5. 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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