Common linnet, Linaria cannabina, male and female. Der Bluthänfling, la Linotte mélodieuse, Fringilla cannabina. 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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