Dusky megapode, dusky scrubfowl or common megapode, Megapodius freycinet. Die Wachtel von Neu Guinea, Die Neu-Guineische Wachtel, la Caille de Nouvelle Guinee, Megapodius freycineti. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from Bernhard Christian Otto’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1777.

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