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Painted plate of two sandgrouse with barred brown plumage standing on sand beside dry grass tufts.

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A chromolithographic plate shows two pale brown sandgrouse with dark barred plumage, one in the foreground with orange-tinted head and breast and one partly behind it among dry grass tufts. The bird's barred back, pointed tail and feathered legs are rendered against a pale sandy ground and a faint sky.

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1902

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