Egyptian plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, and Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola. 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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