Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

  The purple heron (Ardea purpurea) is a wide ranging species of wading bird in the heron family, Ardeidae, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Asia. The Western Palearctic populations migrate between breeding and wintering habitats whereas the African and tropical-Asian populations are primarily sedentary, except for occasional dispersive movements.

• Series: Capex `87
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-05-05
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Face value: 3 riels
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 873

Red Whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)

  The red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) is a passerine bird found in Asia. It is a member of the bulbul family. It is a resident frugivore found mainly in tropical Asia. It has been introduced in many tropical areas of the world where populations have established themselves. It feeds on fruits and small insects and they conspicuously perch on trees and their calls are a loud three or four note call. They are very common in hill forests and urban gardens within its range.

• Series: Capex `87
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-05-05
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Face value: 2 riels
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 872

Grey-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala)

  The grey-headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) has a wide distribution from the Cape Verde Islands off the north-west coast of Africa to Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, east to Ethiopia, Somalia and southern Arabia and south to South Africa.

• Series: Capex `87
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-05-05
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Face value: 1.50 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 871

Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba)

  The barn owl (Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as the common barn owl, to distinguish it from other species in its family, Tytonidae, which forms one of the two main lineages of living owls, the other being the typical owls (Strigidae). The barn owl is found almost everywhere in the world except polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalayas, most of Indonesia and some Pacific islands.

• Series: Capex `87
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-05-05
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Face value: 1 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 870

Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina)

  The black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina) is a bird in the crane family Gruidae. It occurs in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although in nests in somewhat wetter habitats. There are two subspecies: B. p. pavonina in the west and the more numerous B. p. ceciliae in east Africa.

• Series: Capex `87
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-05-05
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Face value: 0.80 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 869

Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

  The hoopoe (Upupa epops) is a colourful bird found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for its distinctive "crown" of feathers. It is the only extant species in the family Upupidae. One insular species, the Saint Helena hoopoe, is extinct, and the Madagascar subspecies of the hoopoe is sometimes elevated to a full species. Like the Latin name upupa, the English name is an onomatopoeic form which imitates the cry of the bird. The hoopoe is the national bird of Israel.

• Series: Capex `87
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-05-05
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Face value: 0.50 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 868

Nubian Bee-eater (Merops nubicus)

  The northern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicus) is an African near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. Alternative common names include the carmine bee-eater or the Nubian bee-eater. It is closely to the southern carmine bee-eater where the throat is carmine (instead of blue).

• Series: Capex `87
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-05-05
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Face value: 0.20 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 867

San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia)

  The San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is a slender multi-colored subspecies of the common garter snake. Designated as an endangered subspecies since the year 1967, it is endemic to San Mateo County and the extreme northern part of coastal Santa Cruz County in California. Some researchers estimate that there are only 1,000 to 2,000 adult snakes of the subspecies T. s. tetrataenia remaining. However, the full extent of the snakes' habitat has not been fully documented, and many snakes may utilize creeks and other waterways that are currently unexplored. This garter snake prefers wet and marshy areas, and because of its elusive nature, it is difficult to see or capture.

• Original Name: "Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 3 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 888

European legless lizard (Ophisaurus apodus)

  The sheltopusik, also spelled scheltopusik, or European legless lizard (Pseudopus apodus) is a large glass lizard found from southern Europe to Central Asia. Its common name comes from Russian: желтопузик, literally "yellow-bellied". It was previously in the genus Ophisaurus, but has been placed in its own genus Pseudopus.

• Original Name: "Ophisaurus apodus"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 2 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 888

Chuckwalla (Sauromalus obesus)

  Chuckwallas are large lizards found primarily in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Some are found on coastal islands. There are five species of chuckwallas, all within the genus Sauromalus; they are part of the iguanid family, Iguanidae.

• Original Name: "Sauromalus obesus"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 1.5 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 887

Coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma Coronatum)

  The coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard which can be found from Baja California north to California's Sacramento Valley. It is a widely divergent species with over 6 subspecies in their relatively small range. As a defense the lizard can shoot high pressure streams of blood out of its eyes if threatened.

• Original Name: "Phrynosoma Coronatum"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 1 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 886

Iguana (Cyclura macleayi)

  In 1938, Bernard C. Lewis of the Institute of Jamaica joined an Oxford University biological expedition to the Cayman Islands. Lewis was able to obtain two blue iguanas, a male and a female, which were later lodged with the British Museum of Natural History. Chapman Grant, in a monograph published in 1940, formally described the blue iguana for the first time as Cyclura macleayi lewisi. Schwartz and Carey established the trinomial (Cyclura nubila lewisi ) in 1977. They held that the blue iguana was a strongly distinct subspecies of the Cuban iguana (C. nubila), the species which it evolved from and can breed with. They emphasized its overall bright blue coloration, and noted that further study could reveal it to be a distinct species. Frederick Burton reclassified the blue iguana as a distinct species in 2004, after years of research comparing scale counts on the heads of Caribbean iguanas, including those found on Little Cayman, Cayman Brac, Cuba, and the Bahamas, as well as mitochondrial DNA analysis performed by Dr. Catherine Malone, to re-examine the phylogeography of the different species.

• Original Name: "Cyclura macleayi"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 0.80 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 885

Agamid lizard (Uromastyx acanthinuros)

  Uromastyx is a genus of African and Asian agamid lizards, the member species of which are commonly called spiny-tailed lizards, uromastyces, mastigures, or dabb lizards. Lizards in the genus Uromastyx are primarily herbivorous, but occasionally eat insects, especially young lizards. They spend most of their waking hours basking in the sun, hiding in underground chambers at daytime or when danger appears. They tend to establish themselves in hilly, rocky areas with good shelter and accessible vegetation.

• Original Name: "Uromastyx acanthinuros"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 0.50 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 884

Aldabra giant tortoise (Testudo gigantea)

  The Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world. Historically, giant tortoises were on many of the western Indian Ocean islands, as well as Madagascar, and the fossil record indicates giant tortoises once occurred on every continent and many islands with the exception of Australia and Antarctica. Many of the Indian Ocean species were thought to be driven to extinction by over-exploitation by European sailors, and they were all seemingly extinct by 1840 with the exception of the Aldabran giant tortoise on the island atoll of Aldabra. Although some remnant individuals of A. g. hololissa and A. g. arnoldi may remain in captivity, in recent times, these have all been reduced as subspecies of A. g. gigantea.

• Original Name: "Testudo gigantea"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 0.20 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 883