Scissor-tailed nightjar, Hydropsalis torquata (Scissars tailed goat-sucker, Caprimulgus psalurus). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1828.

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