Bougainville crow, Corvus meeki. Native to the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. Die Dohle von Neu Guinea, New Guinea crow, Corvus (novaeguineae) cinereus. 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, 1781.

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