African paradise flycatcher, Terpsiphone viridis, male 1, female 2. Der Stahlkopfigte Fliegen Fanger. Gobe-mouche huppe du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Upupa paradisea. Buffon Planche 234. 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, 1788.

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