Yellow-footed green pigeon, Treron phoenicopterus, male 1, female 2, Buru green pigeon, Treron aromaticus 3, Green imperial pigeon, Ducula aenea 4, African olive pigeon, Columba arquatrix 5 and extinct Norfolk Island pigeon, Hemiphaga spadicea 6. Copied from Madame Pauline Knip's Les Pigeons, 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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