Large tiger 1, small tiger 2, pink underwing 3, large magpie 4, brown tail 5, privet 6, forester 7, burnet 8, lascar 9, green silver lines 10, argent and sable 11. 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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