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Identifier: generalhistoryof02lath (find matches)
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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most probably a variety of the latter;I met with this among the drawings of Lady Impey. B.—In this the base of the bill has some hairs nearly as long asthe bill itself; it differs from the others, in having the upper partsrufous yellow, clouded across with dusky waves ; beneath white, alittle clouded; from the nostrils a broad black mark, passing underthe eye, and growing broader behind; lesser wing coverts cloudedwith ash-colour, edged with yellowish ; the rest of the wing black,the feathers more or less yellow at the ends; base of the greater wingcoverts white, forming a spot; tail black, a little cuneiform, the endvery pale rufous; legs pale lead-colour. Inhabits India. 58—CORVINE SHRIKE. Lanius corvinus, Shaws Zool.vu. 337, La grande Pie-griesche, Levail. Afr.n. 118. pi. 78. SIZE of a Blackbird; length twelve inches. Bill pale yellow ;general colour of the plumage pale greyish ash, inclining to brown;about the head, especially over the eye, pale rufous; the outer webs pi.xvm.
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t //////■//rf / • r ////■//(■ SHRIKE. 57 of the quills the same; tail greyish ash-colour, six inches long, andgreatly cuneiform, the outer feathers being only three inches; allthe under parts, from chin to vent, dusky white, inclining to brownon the chin and breast; the wings reach a quarter of an inch on thetail; legs dusky brown. The above was bought of a dealer at Paris, who could give noaccount of the country from whence it came. In the collection of Mr. Comyns, of Dawlish, is a fine specimen.In this, all the feathers of the upper parts have a darker streak downthe middle; greater quills fine rufous for three-fourths of their length,then brown to the end; the rufous occupying most space on theouter webs; tail seven inches long, brown, the outer feather onlytwo; all of them pale at the tips, the pale part bounded by a darkerline; chin plain dusky white; the throat, breast, and belly thesame, crossed with waved, dusky bars on each feather; vent white;legs brown. This was bro

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