Violet-eared waxbill or common grenadier, Granatina granatina. Native to South Africa. Der rothschnablische Distelfinck, le pinson rouge et blue du Bresil, Fringilla granatina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by François-Nicolas Martinet 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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