Magnificent bird-of-paradise, Diphyllodes magnificus. Der prachtige Paradies Vogel, Der Sichelschwanz-Paradiesvogel, Le Paradisier magnifique, le Magnifique de la Nouvelle Guinee, le Manucode a bouquets, Cicinnurus magnificus. 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, 1781.

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