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The Macau merchant whose private tropical bird aviary astonished visitors
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19th century merchant Thomas Beale poured some of his fortune into making a botanical and zoological garden in Macau that was the envy of many naturalists The amateur collector's aviary notably housed some spectacular birds of paradise, which European naturalists had thought to be mythological, not having seen any
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