Eastern wood pewee, Contopus virens, on a sweetleaf tree, Symplocos tinctoria. Der braune Fliegenschnapper von Carolina. Little brown fly-catcher, gobe-mouche brun de la Caroline. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Mark Catesby from Bernhard Christian Otto’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1788.

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