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North American Wildlife (50 stamps in set).
 
Stamp: Bison - American Buffalo
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 22 (c)
Date of issue: 1987 Jun. 13
Depiction: Bison (Bison bison); 35th stamp in the sheet
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalk-surfaced
Designer: Chuck Ripper
Perforation: comb. 11
Printing process: photogravure
Size of a stamp (mm): 26×40
Size of a sheet (mm): 265×215
Sheet composition: 50 (10×5) stamps
Printing run: 12 919 500
Stamp issuing authority: United States Postal Service
Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
  First day city was Toronto, Canada, International Philatelic Exhibition, CAPEX`87.
 
 
 

On stamps at 22 cents apiece of the sheet are:
1) Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster); 2) Monarch butterfly (Danais plexippus); 3) Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis); 4) Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus); 5) Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus); 6) Osprey (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis); 7) Mountain Lion (Puma concolor); 8) Luna Moth (Actias luna); 9) Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus); 10) Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis);
11) Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus); 12) Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus); 13) Moose (Alces alces americanus); 14) Black Bear (Ursus americanus); 15) Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus); 16) Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus); 17) Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus); 18) Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus); 19) American Lobster (Homarus americanus); 20) Black-tailed Jack Rabbit (Lepus californicus);
21) Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea); 22) Woodchuck (Marmota monax); 23) Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja); 24) Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); 25) Alaskan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos middendoriff); 26) Iiwi (Vestiaria coccinea); 27) Badger (Taxidea taxus); 28) Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana); 29) River Otter (Lutra canadensis); 30) Ladybug (Hippodamia convergens);
31) Beaver (Castor canadensis); 32) White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus); 33) Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata); 34) Pika (Ochotona collaris); 35) Bison (Bison bison); 36) Snowy Egret (Egretta thula); 37) Gray Wolf (Canis lupus); 38) Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus); 39) Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus); 40) Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus);
41) Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina); 42) Wolverine (Gulo gulo); 43) American Elk (Cervus elaphus); 44) California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus); 45) Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos); 46) Raccoon (Procyon lotor); 47) Bobcat (Lynx rufus); 48) Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes); 49) Canada Goose (Branta canadenis); 50) Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes fulva).

Themes: bison (Bison bison), fauna
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