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Title: A general synopsis of birds
Year: 1781 (1780s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for Benj. White
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eathers. Tongue not the length of the bill, laciniated at the end.Toes divided to the origin. Of this race of Birds Linnaus knew but two ; one of which heplaced with his Shrikes, the other with the Grofieaks, contrary tothe fentiments of Brijfon, who had put them in a genus by them-felves. Mr. Pennant has judicioufiy united them again into one,,and we here think right to follow his example ; as, on inveftiga-tion, there is not a doubt of not only thofe, but all the following,being of one and the fame genus. I# Loxia Colius, Lin. Syft. i. p. 301. N° 12 *. CAPE .C Le Gbliou du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. orn. iii. p. 304. pi. 16. f. 2. —Buf. oif. iv. p. 404.—PL enl. 282. f. 1.Lev. Muf. Description. CIZE of a Chaffinch: length ten inches and a quarter. Billgrey, with a dufky black tip : the head and neck are vina- ceous * So far as Linntsu: gives us a fpecific diftinftion of fpecies, the fynonymis right; but in the end he defcribes forae other bird by miftake; which he fays pi.xcr
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ll/u/r r,rr/iv/ (//// 101 ceous afh-colour: back, rump, (capillars, and upper wing co-verts, afh-colour : upper tail coverts purplifh chefnut: breaft vi-naceous : from thence to the vent, dirty white: under wingcoverts black : tail afh-colour, greatly cuneiform in fhape; theouter feathers not more than ten lines in length, and white onthe outer web : legs grey : claws dufky black-Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. Place. Lanius macrourus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 134. N° 5. Le Coliou huppe de Senegal, Brif. orn. iii. p. 306. pi. 16. f. ^.—Buf.oif. iv, p. 404. pi. 18.—PI. enl. 282. f. 2. CIZE of the lad: length twelve inches and a half. The billgrey at the bafe, and black at the tip : general colour of theplumage a pale grey, which has a vinaceous tinge on the head,neck, and breaft: the feathers on the top and hind part of thehead are of a fea-green colour, and longer than the reft, forminga creft: quills and tail grey brown, the laft inclining to blue, andthe fhaft brown ; the feathers of u

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