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Happy #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay! Image: Boobook Owl, "The Birds of Australia" Gould 1848. https://t.co/XXgk7C0xrV via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
Neville Cayley's "What bird is that?" (1931) was Australia's 1st fully-illustrated national field guide for birds. In 1960 it was rated as the all-time best seller in Australian natural history. Now freely available on @BioDivLibrary thx to @museumsvictoria & @atlaslivingaust
New to @biodivlibrary: Flora Fossilis Arctica by Dr. Oswald Heer (Zurich, 1883) from @museumsvictoria's rare book library. https://t.co/Q2GenY2u2H via @atlaslivingaust
Ghost Moth (Abantiades labyrinthicus), first described & illustrated by Edward Donovan, 1805. https://t.co/HAx4uRbIGC via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries #Lepidoptera
A picture is worth 1000 words: "to particularize the richness of its robe would be unnecessary; the figure accurately shewing all its variegations of colour." 1st description of the Eastern Rosella (Shaw, 1792) https://t.co/9LIbHSADyf via @BioDivLibrary & @SILibraries #SciArt
These two Australian Hawk Moths (Coequosa australasiae & C. triangularis) were first described by Donovan in 1805. https://t.co/WGv3MjjX11 via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries #Lepidoptera
Le Kangourou Rouge. From "Compléments de Buffon" by R. P. Lesson, 1838. #SwampWallaby https://t.co/Qc7L2Tgs5C via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
"Black-headed Snake", 1869. Illustrated by Harriet Scott, in Krefft's "The Snakes of Australia". https://t.co/cllxby5bTN via @mayrlibrary @BioDivLibrary #BlackheadedPython (Aspidites melanocephalus)
1st description of the Southern Brown Bandicoot (Porculine Opossum): "the animal bears a distant resemblance to a pig in miniature", Shaw 1797. https://t.co/arKNhZezba Via @museumsvictoria & @BioDivLibrary
"Settlers in New South Wales are led away by the idea that everything is the reverse in [Australia] ... the Cuckoo, as they call this bird, singing by night is one of the instances they point out." Gould 1848. #BoobookOwl https://t.co/LgjYwa5ioG via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries