Spotted buttonquail, Turnix ocellatus. Endemic to the northern Philippines. Die Luzonische Wachtel, La Caille de l'Isle de Luzon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Schmidt after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat 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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