Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise, Seleucidis melanoleucus. Mislabeled Promerops. Copied from an illustration by Adolph Fries in Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle. Handcoloured steel engraving printed by F. Chardon from Achille Comte’s Musee d’Histoire Naturelle, Museum of Natural History, Gustave Hazard, Paris, 1854.

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