Passenger pigeon or wild pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius. Extinct. Die Wander Taube, Wandertaube, Columba macroura. 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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