Eggs of various birds: magpie, jays and roller. Der Elster, des Hehers, des Rakers. Drawn after nature. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration from Bernhard Christian Otto’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1781.

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