Long-tailed widowbird, Euplectes progne 1, and red-collared widowbird, Euplectes ardens 2. Witwe mit Achselbaendern, Veuve a epaulettes, Hahnenschweifweber, Euplecte à longue queue, Witwe mit feuerrother Brust, Veuve de l'isle Panay, Veuve en feu, Euplecte veuve-noire, Schildweber. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Halle 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, 1785.

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