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40p: this lovely new WWF issue features the widespread Red-billed Tropicbird

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10p: this birds issue features the White Tern, a far-ranging seabird

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18p: this Tall Ships issue features the HMS Athol, which dates from 1875

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50p: this issue features the secretive Allen's Gallinule, an endemic waterbird found in dense marshes in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearby islands

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40p, 50p: this botanical set features two early scientists for whom local flora have been named for (with pictures in the insets at left): Nehemiah Grew and Charles Plumier

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5p, 9p and L1 values of Sailing Ships

Georgetown postmark, 1988

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15p Birdlife - Fairy Tern (Gygis alba)