Common emerald dove or Asian emerald dove, Chalcophaps indica. Colombine turvert, Javanische Turteltaube, Tourterelle de Java, Columba javanica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Schmidt 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, 1777.

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