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Description: Plate XLIIII from Samuel Pepy's hand-coloured copy of Francis Willughby's "Ornithology", showing (clockwise from top) a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), a Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), a Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), a House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), a Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) and a Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris).
Title: Pepys copy of Willughby's Ornithology
Credit: Page 886 of (2009). "Samuel Pepys's hand-coloured copy of John Ray's 'The Ornithology of Francis Willughby' (1678)". Journal of Ornithology 150 (4): 883–891. DOI:10.1007/s10336-009-0413-3.
Author: Print published by John Ray, 1678, hand-coloured by an unknown artist between 1864 and 1868
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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