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Title: A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
Year: 1731 (1730s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759 Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by William Innys in St. Paul's Church yard, John Clarke under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, and John Brindley at the King's Arms in New Bond-Street
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( tnvr/fj l^/i£ Itai>^vi ( 19 ) The Raven. CorvuS Numb. XX. IT weighed two Pounds and two Ounces; its Length from the Tip of the Bill tothe End of the Tail, was two Foot and one Inch i its Breadth, when the Wingswere extended, was four Foot and one Inch; the Bill long, thick, fharp, and veryblack; the upper Chap fomething hooked, the lower ftreight; the Tongue broad,cleft at the Tip, rough and black underneath ; the Iris confifts of a double Circle;the exteriour being of a light cinereous or afh-colour; the interiour of a dark ci-nereous j black Hairs or Briftles bending from the Head downwards cover the Nof-tfils ; the Plumage is black all over the Body, having a blue Splendour or Glofs inthe Tail and Wings, the Belly is fomething paler inclining to brown; on the mid-dle of the Back grow only downy Feathers; for the Back is covered with thofelong Feathers that fpring from the Shoulders, as in many other Birds: The Numberof prime Feathers in each Wing is twenty, of which the firft

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