Eastern spinebill, Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris 1, Myzomela species 2, yellow-tufted honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops 3, brush wattlebird, Anthochaera chrysoptera 4, white-naped honeyeater, Melithreptus lunatus 5, and souimanga sunbird, Cinnyris sovimanga (as quintilor of Sierra Leone) 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1812. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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