Mourning dove, Zenaida macroura. Die Carolinische Turtel Taube, la Tourte, Tourterelle de la Caroline, Turtur carolinensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wolff after an illustration by Johan Seligmann from Bernhard Christian Otto’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1777.

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