Glossy swiftlet, Collocalia esculenta, pair on nest (Esculent swallow, Hirundo esculenta). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Samuel Howitt from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1828.

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