Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, and black skimmer, Rynchops niger. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.

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