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British Library digitised image from page 6 of "Te Ika a Maui, or, New Zealand and its Inhabitants ... Second edition, etc"

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  • Robyn Gallagher said:
    This superb image needs to be rotated.
  • Vernon Fridy said:
    A landscape of pre-European New Zealand, featuring a suite of native plants, flightless birds, and a human (Māori) hunter.
    This is not paleoart; the larger moa species likely only became extinct sometime in the 15th century.

British Library digitised image from page 27 of "On the Mammals of the Island of Formosa (China) [With coloured plates. From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, December 9, 1862.]"

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  • Vernon Fridy said:
    Chinese Ferret-badger (Melogale moschata)

British Library digitised image from page 194 of "The Cruise of 'The Kate.'"

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  • Thomas Klugh said:
    Reading "The Kate", now. Wonderful.

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