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                             George Shaw’s General Zoology - Birds

golden oriole

                                         The
Golden Oriole

A hand colored copper-plate engraving issued  in 1808 for George Shaw’s General Zoology or the Systematic Natural History. Shaw,s Zoological Lectures contained some of the finest engravings of the period.





        
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