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Page 362. The Purple Tanager, and a Beeeater, 1810-17 (w/c & manuscript text)

5670185 Page 362. The Purple Tanager, and a Beeeater, 1810-17 (w/c & manuscript text) by Digby, Kenelm Henry (1800-80); 39.6x25.2x5.4 cm; Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales; (add.info.: The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpent and Insects; & accurately copied either from Living Animals or from the stuffed Specimens in the Museums of the College and Dublin Society, to which is added drawings of several antiquities, natural productions &c containd in those Museums -- illustrated manuscript by Kenelm Henry Digby); Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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Gough Island bunting (Rowettia goughensis) gathering nesting material. Gough Island

Gough Island bunting (Rowettia goughensis) gathering nesting material. Gough Island, Gough and Inaccessible Islands UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Atlantic. Endemic. Critically endangered species

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Nazca booby (Sula granti) on coast, with Vampire ground finches (Geospiza septentrionalis

Nazca booby (Sula granti) on coast, with Vampire ground finches (Geospiza septentrionalis). These finches peck at birds, feeding on blood when other food sources are scarce, Wolf sland, Galapagos

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