A second batch of Australian Finches have flown from Australia to India in just 10 days :)
Another set of birds from the Christmas Islands. Christmas Islands are a group of small sparsely populated islands south of Indonesia , but belonging to Australia. The stamps shows birds - native of Christmas Islands - illustrated by the renowned illustrator of birds - John Gerrard Keulemans.
The four stamps are
$1 - Christmas boobook
$1 - white tailed tropic bird
$2 - Brown Goshawk
$2 - Christmas white eye
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans) (8 June 1842 – 29 March 1912) was a Dutch bird illustrator. For most of his life he lived and worked in England, illustrating a large number of the best-known ornithology books of the nineteenth century. Keulemans was prodigious in his output - he was commissioned to paint pictures of birds extensively throughout his career, and his prints were published continuously from 1867 to 1911. Several of Keuleman’s hand-coloured lithographs appeared in the published findings of the first survey of the natural history of Christmas Island (1900) by Charles William Andrews of the British Museum.
Thanks Irene for these wonderful covers with Australian birds !
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