Cape longclaw or orange-throated longclaw, Macronyx capensis. Die Capsche lerche, la cravatte jaune, calendre du Cap, Alauda capensis. Buffon Planche 504. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by François-Nicolas Martinet from Bernhard Christian Otto’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1788.

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