Mousebird from Senegal, from La galerie des oiseaux du Cabinet d'histoire naturelle du Jardin du roi, 1834 edition, written by Louis Pierre Vieillot, with plates by Paul Louis Oudart. Today this bird is known as the blue-naped mousebird, Urocolius macrourus.

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