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Animals, there is another large engraving of three figures 

 with a number of beasts at their feet, and before that on 

 Birds, there is a lively picture with an architectural back- 

 ground, showing a scene which swarms with innumerable 

 birds of all kinds, whose peculiarities are apparently being 

 discussed by two savants in the foreground. The treatise 



Text-fig. 9. "Daucus" = Carrot [Ortus Sanitatis, 

 Mainz, 1491]. 



on Fishes begins with a landscape with water, enlivened by 

 shipping. There are two figures in the foreground, and 

 in the water, fishes, crabs and mythical monsters such as 

 mermen, are seen disporting themselves. Before the treatise 

 on Stones, there is a very spirited scene representing a 



