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Grey Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum)

From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864.

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Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)

From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864.

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Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864.

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un:

(via sarahcchiarot) Mad Men by David Downton

fosakana:

[drawr] 後藤

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What flies over forests
As long gray shadows?
(Co to letí nade hvozdy
jako dlouhĕ šedé stíny?)

Adolph Liebscher, from Legenda o sv. Prokopu (Legend of St. Prokop), by Jaroslav Vrchlický, illustrated by Karel and Adolf Liebscher. Prague, 1884.

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