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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837 Latham, John, 1740-1837. General synopsis of birds Latham, John, 1740-1837. Index to the General history of birds Chanler, Robert Winthrop, 1872-1930, donor. DSI Wright, J., binder. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI E. Weyhe (Firm), bookseller. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Winchester (England) : Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author : sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker ... (and 3 others)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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rusty iron-colour; under partswhite; the two middle tail feathers are white, tipped with black;the others black; toes webbed as in the Avoset. This bird is said to inhabit Italy, and to run very fast, whencethe name given to it. Aldrovandus is the only one who has seen thebird, and from him alone all succeeding authors have copied thedescription and figure. It swims occasionally, but generally wadesfive or six inches deep in the water. Some have supposed this birdto be no other than the Avoset, with a mutilated bill; a circumstancewhich I once saw, from both mandibles having been shot away withintwo inches of the gape, and might have passed for quite a differentbird ; yet the colours described by Aldrovandus by no meanscorrespond with those of the Avoset. Charleton calls it the Fin-footed Runner. Johnston gives much the same account as Aldro-vandus, from whom he has no doubt taken the description ; andWill ugh bys description and figure have originated from the samesource. pl.clx.vht.
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/4rJ. /7/////fr/f>. FLAMINGO. 43 GENUS XCVII.—FLAMINGO. 1 Red Flamingo ;; 2 Chili Flamingo .DILL thick, large, bending in the middle, forming a sharp angle;the higher part of the upper mandible carinated ; the lower com-pressed ; the edges of the upper sharply denticulated ; of the lowertransversely sulcated. Nostrils covered above with a thin plate, pervious, linearly lon-gitudinal. Tongue cartilaginous, and pointed at the end; in the middlemuscular; base glandular; on the upper part aculeated. Neck very long. Legs and thighs of a vast length. Feet webbed ; the webs extending as far as the claws, but deeplysemilunated. Back toe very small. 1.—RED FLAMINGO.—Pl. clxviii. Phaenicopterus ruber, Ind. Orn. ii. 788. Lin. i. 230. Gm. Lin. i. 612. Scop. i. No. 214. Bris. vi. 532. t. 47. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 502. Raii, 117. 2. Id. 190. 1. Will. 240. t. 60. Sloan. Jam. 321. 17. Brown, Jam. 480. Seb. Mus. i. 123. t. 67. f. 1. Phil. Trails, xxix. t. 2. p. 523. Grew, Mus. p. 67. pl. 5.—the b

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