Long-tailed paradise whydah, Vidua paradisaea and rufous hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus. Long-tailed finch and little brown hummingbird. Handcoloured woodblock engraving after an illustration by George Edwards from The Natural History of Birds, published by Brightly and Childs, Bungay, Suffolk, 1815. Charles Brightly established a printing and stereotype foundry in Bungay in 1795 and went into partnership with nonconformist radical printer John Firby Childs in 1808.

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Size: 4239px × 6944px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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