Aberdavine or siskin finch 1, acontias 2, admirable butterfly 3, white admirable 4, grand admiral shell 5, rear admiral 6, agouti 7 and albatross 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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