Illustration of a red-cheeked cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus). This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in drier regions of tropical Sub-Saharan Africa. Coloured plate from 'The Naturalist's repository', or, 'Monthly miscellany of exotic natural history' by Edward Donovan, 1768-1837, Volume 1, 1823.

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