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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Winchester (Eng.) Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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nto the head ; the nostrils aslit high up, near the base, at which part it is sixteen inches incircumference ; the whole head and neck are naked, the front yellow;fore part of the neck the same, but more dull; the hind part of theneck red, with here and there a warty excrescence, mixed with a fewstraggling hairs, curled at the ends; on the lower part of the neckbefore is a conical, large pouch, appearing inflated, like a bladder,greatly elongated, hanging over the breast, and sparingly beset withshort down, with a tuft of long hairs at the bottom; the upper partof the back and shoulders furnished with white, downy feathers; theback itself and wing coverts deep bluish ash-colour: second wingcoverts white on the outer web; second quills dusky brown; primequills and tail deep blackish lead-colour: the latter ten inches long, * One, which was living in a Menagerie in England for some years, had only fourteen feetin expanse of wing, but it was supposed not to be a full grown bird. PL CXLYI
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c/c&iZ4Z&c (^rtzne.. HERON. 39 consisting of twelve feathers, and very little longer than the end ofthe quills, when the bird is at rest; the feathers of the sides, beneaththe wings, and those of the vent and under tail coverts, are long anddowny, some of them nearly twelve inches ; these, as well as thebreast and belly, are dusky white; legs long and black, naked farabove the knees, and very scaly; toes webbed at the base, and theclaws blunt. This monster, as Ives not improperly calls it, inhabits Bengal,as also Calcutta; at the last called Hurgill, or Argill; it stalksmajestically, and appears at first like a naked Indian. The commonopinion is, that the souls of the Bramins possess these birds, and theyare thought invulnerable; for when Mr. Ives missed his shot at several,the standers by observed with great satisfaction, that he might shootto eternity, and never succeed. It is found in Sumatra, and the EasternIslands, but no where so common as at Bengal. It generally arrives

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