Unknown munia species (Black-faced munia, Lonchura molucca?) 1, and white-headed munia, Lonchura maja 2. Maja, Majan. Fringilla maja, Loxia maja, der Weisskopf, Malacca gros-beak, 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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