Pin-tailed whydah, Vidua macroura. Long-tailed sparrow, Passser cauda longissima, Vidua principalis. Der braune Hänfling (sic). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johan Seligmann (VIII No. 60) 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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