Shaft-tailed whydah or queen whydah, Vidua regia, and immature pin-tailed whydah, Vidua macroura. Die Wittwe mit vier Faden, die Dominikaner Wittwe, la Veuve a quatre brins, Emberiza regia, Emberiza serena, Vidua minor, la Veuve dominicaine. 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, 1785.

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