White cuscus and spotted cuscus, Spilocuscus maculatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838.

White cuscus and spotted cuscus, Spilocuscus maculatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838.
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