Monthly pigeon, Columba livia. Breed of fancy pigeon. Die Mon Taube, Monatstaube, Columba menstrua. 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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