Beautiful firetail, Stagonopleura bella (Black-lined grosbeak, Fringilla bella). Illustration by H. Kearsley from a specimen in the Linnean Society Museum. Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1829.

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