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The books contain a total of 200 hand-coloured lithographs of approximately 120 native (song) birds and 80 cage and garden birds. Each species depicted has a text written by Keulemans himself, which varies from two to thirteen pages. The text pages are not numbered. Keulemans' descriptions are particularly lively. Thijsse wrote about him that the tits slept in his drawing rolls. Keulemans came from Rotterdam. He was first an assistant at the National Museum of Natural History, and became one of the most famous illustrators of bird books. 67419575
