Fantail pigeon, Columba livia. Breed of fancy pigeon. Broad-tailed shaker pigeon, Die Pfau Taube, Pfauentaube, Columba tremula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S (Schmidt?) after an illustration by Johann Leonhard Frisch 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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