Sunday Stamps - July 12, 2026

 We round out the alphabet this week with X,Y, and Z for Sunday Stamps. 

My alphabetical stamps have been animals, and for X I am grateful for scientific names!

Xiphias gladius, Swordfish

Solomon Islands 1998

 

Xylocopa caerulea, Carpenter Bee 
 Singapore 1985

Y is a trio of Yellow-Bellies. 

Yellow-Bellied Glider
Australia 1997

Yellow-Bellied Sunbird

Australia 2003

 Yellow-Bellied Trogon

Belize 1978

Last, but not least, Z. 

Zebu 
Madagascar 1930

Zokor When Mongolia issued this stamp the official postal description used a generic fur-bearing rodent term that Western editors interpreted as "muskrat," as zokors were unknown outside the scientific community. Once one major catalog printed "muskrat" the others followed suit. Catalogs almost never revisit mid-century wildlife identification, so "muskrat" it remains.  However, it isn't, it's a zokor!
 Mongolia, 1959 

That ends this round of A to Z stamps.  Next week we will have Lighthouses.