Golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos, preying on a rabbit. Der gemeine Schwarze Adler, petit aigle noir, Aquila nigra, Aquila melanaetus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johann Leonhard Frisch from Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1772.

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