File:Distribution of Animals - New Guinea.jpg

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Scene in New Guinea, with characteristic animals.

  • Centre: twelve-wired paradise-bird (as Epimachus albus)
  • Below: racquet-tailed king-hunters (as Tanysiptera galatea)
  • On a high branch: Papuan parroquet (as Charmosyna papuensis)
  • On ground: crowned pigeon (as Goura coronata)
  • On branch: tree-kangaroo (as Dendrolagus inustus)
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Source The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Vol. I: Project Gutenberg : Internet Archive
Author Alfred Russel Wallace. Illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker (1814–1876).


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