"To fulfil a wish I had long entertained, of dedicating to our most gracious Queen one of the loveliest of the ornithological productions of her antipodal dominions..." Victoria's riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae), in Gould's Birds of Australia (1869)

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Appropriately for Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday anniversary a piece of sheet music, “Merry May - Little songs for Little singers”, with a charming illustration of the young princess.

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