The etchings used in the following rollovers are taken from the Big Book of Dragons, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures, by Ernst and Johanna Lehner, a Dover edition published in 2004, a republication of A Fantastic Bestiary: Beasts and Monsters in Myth and Folklore, originally published by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, in 1969. The book is a Dover Pictoral Archive of clip-art.
The Walrus
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The Opossum
I don't mind a little artistic interpretation when it comes to opossums but in this case I think either the reporting naturalist or the artist or both had indulged in a medicinal plant of some kind from the New World. Not that opossums aren't scary-looking.
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