Speckled pigeon, African rock pigeon or Guinea pigeon, Columba guinea. Guineische Ringel Taube mit dreyeckichten Flecken. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Schmidt after an illustration by Johan Seligmann from Bernhard Christian Otto’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1777.

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