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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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owing have the tops of their Vanes fo runningforth on each fide above their Shafts, that they feem to be notched in theirtops, and from the Angle of that Notch the Shaft: of the Feather is conti-nued in form of a Briftle. The Tail is made up of twelve Feathers,whereof the exterior are fomewhat fhorter; the Length of the Tail is jInches and a half. The back Toe and Claw are larger than in other Birds are ufual; the out-moft Fore-toe is joind to the middlemoft at the bottom, as in the reft ofthis kind ; it hath no Craw; the Stomach is mufculous; the Length of theGuts \V2.% 24 Inches. It feeds on Ntits^ Fruits^ and InfeBs ; the Appendicesor blind Guts fmall, and fcarce an Inch long. ■ Its Head is large in refped: to its Body; he feems to be a crafty and in-genious Bird; they ufually frequent and build in ancient Cajiles^ Churches^and ruinous Buddings^ in great Numbers, and fometimes in Trees; theylay five or fix Eggs, lelTer and paler, and having fewer Spots than thoieof Crows. The tH-
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