Common emerald dove, Asian emerald dove or grey-capped emerald dove, Chalcophaps indica. Die Indianische Grungeflugelte Taube, Columba alis viridibus, Pigeon a ailes vertes, Green winged dove. 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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