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for a fortnight -- complete with bowler hats and umbrellas and striped shirts

' An onion seller holding two strings of onions

Also showing a busy street scene with horse drawn carriage and a water pump

are both dressed in mob caps and gowns in the best tradition of nursemaids

The 'blew gross-beak' and the 'sweet flowring bay' mb-code Job_0335 for a fortnight -- complete'Coccothraustes caerulea', the blew gross beak, and 'Magnolia lauri folio, subtus albicante', the sweet flowring bay (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Passerina caerulea, the blue grosbeak; Magnolia virginiana, the sweetbay magnolia). Plate 39 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original:

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