Distribution of Animals - Madagascar, Johann Baptist Zwecker, 1876
Scene in madagascar, with characteristic animals. Foreground: aye-aye (as chiromys madagascariensis)
distance: river-hogs (as potamochœrus edwardsii)¹
large bird: euryceros prevosti
bird beneath: vanga curvirostris
bird in right hand corner: leptosoma discolor
fan-shaped plant on the left: traveller's tree (as urania speciosa)
¹ nowadays thought to have been introduced to madagascar by humans. Date: 1876.