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The 'goat-sucker of Carolina' Finish:Rolled Mr Punch stamping and kicking

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Mr Punch stamping and kicking the newspapers

on the morning of 2nd January

photographed the day before the World Cup Final

Top left shows a family filling a window to gain a vantage point for Queen Victoria's procession

Plate 1 from Airopaidia: containing the narrative of a balloon excusion from Chester

The 'goat-sucker of Carolina' Finish:Rolled Mr Punch stamping and kickingBird identified by Catesby as 'Caprimulgus', the goat sucker of Carolina (modern identification: a composite of three birds: Chordeiles minor, the common nighthawk; Caprimulgus carolinensis, the chuck will's widow; Caprimulgus vociferus, the whip poor will). The term 'goat sucker' comes from the folk myth that these birds sucked the milk from goats. The bird is here depicted eating a mole cricket, Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa. Plate 8 from volume I of The

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