Grey finch, Loxia cana. Der eisengraue Hänfling, lichtgrauer Sperling, pinson gris, hoary loxia, Linaria cinerea orientalis, Fingilla cinerea indica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johan Seligmann (VI No. 74) 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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