Meridionalis Gallery

Mask flower, Alonsoa meridionalis, native to South America

Mask flower, Alonsoa meridionalis, native to South America.. Handcolored stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's Herbier General de l'Amateur, Audot, Paris, 1820

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Great grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis) perched on a branch of Montpellier maple

Great grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis) perched on a branch of Montpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum). Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park. southern Spain. December

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Australian wildlife, lithograph, published in 1897

Australian wildlife: 1) Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus); 2) Tree-kangaroo; 3) Tasmanian tiger, or Tasmanian wolf (Thylacinus cynocephalus, extinct); 4) Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus); 5) Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); 6) Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus); 7) New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis); 8) Kakapo (Strigops habroptila); 9) Lesser bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea minor); 10) Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae); 11) Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius); 12) North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli); 13) Superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae); 14) Australian brushturkey (Alectura lathami); 15) Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus); 16) Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri); 17) Yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea). Lithograph after a drawing by Gustav MAOEtzel (German painter, 1839 - 1893), published in 1897