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Birds Volume 10

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Drawing of a pair of Red Billed Queleas from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Red Billed Quelea

Drawing of a pair of Common Waxbills from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Europe, and South America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Black Breasted Weavers--also known as Bengal Weavers--from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: India]

Black-throated Weaver-bird

Drawing of a pair of European Greenfinches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Australia, and New Zealand]

Drawing of a pair of House Finches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: North America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Yellow Fronted Canaries from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa and Hawaii. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Yellow Fronted Canary

Drawing of a pair of Yellow-bellied Seedeaters from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Panama and tropical South America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Yellow-bellied Seedeater

Drawing of a pair of Ultramarine Grosbeaks from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Brazil and Colombia. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Ultramarine Grosbeaks from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Brazil and Colombia. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Blue Grosbeak? [female]

Drawing of a pair of male and female Greater Antillean Bullfinches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: the Caribbean. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Greater Antillean Bullfinch, male and female

Drawing of a pair of immature Scaly Breasted Munias from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Hawaii, Caribbean, and the Southern United States. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

White-throated Munia

Drawing of a pair of Silver Beaked Tanagers from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: tropical South America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Silver Beaked Tanager

Drawing of a pair of Tanagers from 18th century specimens [Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Blue-Black Grassquits from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Central America and South America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Blue-black Grassquit

Drawing of a pair of Snow Buntings from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: North America, Europe, and Russia. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Ortolan Buntings from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Ortolan Bunting

Drawing of a pair of male and female Yellowhammers from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and New Zealand]

Yellow Bunting [male] & [female]

Drawing of a pair of Northern Red Bishops from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: West Africa, East Africa, and Southern California]

Red Bishop Bird

Drawing of a pair of male and female White-throated Sparrows from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: the United States and Canada. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

White-throated Sparrows [male] & [female]

Drawing of a pair of male and female Reed Buntings from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Northeast Asia]

Drawing of a male Togo Paradise-Whydah from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Paradise Whydah [male]

Drawing of a pair of Pin-tailed Whydahs from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Common Widow-bird [male]

Drawing of a pair of male and female Shaft-tailed Whydahs from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Southern Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Shaft-tailed Widow-bird

Drawing of a pair of Yellow-mantled Widowbirds--also known as Yellow-shouldered Widowbirds--from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Sub-Saharan tropical Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Yellow-shouldered Widowbird

Drawing of a pair of male and female Painted Buntings from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: North America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Painted Bunting [male] & [female]

Drawing of a male Painted Bunting from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America] and a male Indigo Bunting from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America and as far south as Northern Colombia]

Nonpareil; painted Bunting [male]

Drawing of a pair of Red Fox Sparrows from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Finches from 18th century specimens [Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Saffron Finches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: South America, the Caribbean, and Hawaii. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Black-throated Canaries--also known as Black-throated Seedeaters--from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Southern and Central Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Black-Throated Canary, Black-throated Seedeater

Drawing of a pair of European Serins from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, North Africa, and Turkey]

Drawing of a pair of Meadow Pipits from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa]

Drawing of a male House Finch from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790 and Collins, Charles]

House Finch, male

Drawing of a male European Goldfinch from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia]

British Goldfinch

Drawing of a pair of Green-Winged Pytilias from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Southern Red-faced Weaver Finch

Drawing of a pair of male and female Common Chaffinches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and New Zealand]

Chaffinch [male] & [female].

Drawing of a pair of Island Canaries from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: primarily the Canary Islands and Azores and occasionally Western and Southern Europe. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of Violet-eared Waxbills from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Southern Africa. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Violet-eared Cordon-bleu

Drawing of pair of Summer Tanagers from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: the United States, Southern Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, and Northern South America. Attributed to Paillou, Peter, c.1720 – c.1790]

Drawing of a pair of American Goldfinches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Canada, the United States, and Mexico]

Eastern Goldfinch

Drawing of a pair of Red Avadavats from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia]

Amadurvade Waxbill

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