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

Set of postage stamps "Sport Fishing" Part.2

  Coryphaena hippurus Linneo, original name in Spanish: Dorado. Coryphaena is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes. This genus is currently the only known genus in its family. The species in this genus have compressed heads and single dorsal fins that run the entire length of the fishes' bodies.

  Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, original name in Spanish: Sabalo. The Atlantic tarpon inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers. Tarpons feed almost exclusively on schooling fish and occasionally crabs.

  Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier), original name in Spanish: Peto. Wahoo is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. It is best known to sports fishermen, as its speed and high-quality flesh make it a prize game fish. In Hawaii, the wahoo is known as ono. Many Hispanic areas of the Caribbean and Central America refer to this fish as peto.

  Makaira ampla (Poey), original name in Spanish: Castero. The Atlantic blue marlin is a species of marlin endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic blue marlin feeds on a wide variety of organisms near the surface. It uses its bill to stun, injure, or kill while knifing through a school of fish or other prey, then returns to eat the injured or stunned fish.

• Series: Sport Fishing
• Country: Republic of Cuba
• Year: 1971-10-30
• Perforation: line 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 50 x 30 mm
• Face value: 4, 5, 13, 30 ¢
• Number of catalogue Michel: CU 1724-1727

Set of postage stamps "Sport Fishing" Part.1

  Albula vulpes (Linneo), original name in Spanish: Macabi. The bonefish is the type species of the bonefish family (Albulidae), the only family in order Albuliformes.

  Seriola species, original name in Spanish: Coronado. Seriola is a genus of bony fish, commonly known as amberjacks. They are a large, carnivorous finfish popularly known for the firm texture and rich flavour of their flesh, which make them an ideal fish for aquaculture.

  Micropterus salmoides, original name in Spanish: Lobina. The largemouth bass is a freshwater gamefish in the sunfish family, a species of black bass native to North America.

• Series: Sport Fishing
• Country: Republic of Cuba
• Year: 1971-10-30
• Perforation: line 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 50 x 30 mm
• Face value: 1, 2, 3 ¢
• Number of catalogue Michel: CU 1721-1723

Eugene Delacroix (Set of USSR Postcards, 1959)

  Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

• Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France (Location: Louvre, Paris, France).

• Liberty Leading the People, 1830 (fragment).

• Woman with a Parrot, 1827 (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France).
• Arab Comedians, 1848 (Location: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours, Tours, France).

• Saint Georges fighting with the Dragon, 1854 (Location: Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble, France).
• Lion Hunt in Morocco, 1854 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

• Marocan and his horse, 1855 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

• The Death of Ophelia, 1843 (Location: Private Collection).

• Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1843 (Location: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France).

• The Scene in Auerbach's Cellar.

• Country: USSR
• Year: 1959
• Subject: Art
• Impression: 50 000

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Burundi) Part.3

  Scarus guacamaia is the largest parrotfish in the Atlantic, reaching a maximum size in excess of 100 cm. It is relatively widespread in the western Atlantic from Bermuda through south Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean to Venezuela.

  Priacanthus arenatus; habitat: benthic on coral reefs and rocky bottoms, generally occurring at depths of 15-75 m (exceptionally to 200 m) in small aggregations.

  John Dory, St Pierre or Peter's Fish, refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, of widespread distribution. It is an edible benthic coastal marine fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large dark spot, and long spines on the dorsal fin.

  The gray angelfish or gray angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) is a large angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae, found in the western Atlantic from New England to the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and also the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, including the Antilles.

  The ocean surgeon or ocean surgeonfish (Acanthurus bahianus) is a tropical fish known to live in reefs in the Atlantic Ocean.

  The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis, (Lactophrys quadricornis) belongs to the Ostraciidae family and is closely related to boxfish and trunkfish.

  The queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) is an angelfish commonly found near reefs in the warmer sections of the western Atlantic Ocean. Other common names include blue angelfish, golden angelfish, queen angel, and yellow angelfish.

  Balistes vetula, the queen triggerfish or old wife, is a reef dwelling triggerfish found in the Atlantic Ocean. It is occasionally caught as a gamefish, and sometimes kept in marine aquaria.

• Series: Fishes
• Country: Republic of Burundi
• Year: 1974
• Emission: Commemorative, Air mail
• Perforation: line 13½
• Printing: Photogravure
• Size: 70 x 70 mm
• Face value: 6, 26, 11, 31 Burundi francs 
• Number of catalogue Michel: BI 1050-1057, BI 1101-1108