Turkish or mawmet pigeon, Columba livia var. turcica, breed of fancy pigeon. Die Turckische Taube, Turkey pigeon, Columba turcica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Schmidt after an illustration by Johann Leonhard Frisch 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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