Common waxbill, Estrilda astrild, varieties. Der kleine Senegalische Sperling, le petit Moineau de Senegal, Serevan, le Serevan, Fringilla serevan, Loxia astrild. 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, 1785.

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