Lilac-breasted roller or Mosilikatze's roller, Coracias caudatus. Native to Central and South Africa, Angola and Namibia. Der Angolaische Raker, Die Gabelracke, le Rollier d'Angola, Rollier à longs brins. 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, 1781.

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