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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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tail covertsblue; quills, and part of the row of feathers next above them,fine sky blue; insides of the wings, and under the tail dirty orange-colour; tail cuneiform, as in the others, of a fine chestnut red,tipped with blue; legs dusky flesh-colour. I suspect this to be the bird mentioned above by Bancroft, asbig as a Maccaw. The bill long, slender, and flesh-coloured;plumage beautiful pea-green; the feathers at the top of the head,and upper edge of the wing red; tail long, composed of green, red,and purple feathers. Said to be frequent at Demerary, and oftento speak distinctly; the name among the natives is Acushi. Mr. Edwards took his description from a living specimen. Wehave since seen a similar one, preserved on paper, at the late TaylorWhites, Esq. done by his daughter, in the manner described by Mr.Edwards, in his History of Birds, and on Mr. Whites death,became part of the Leverian Collection. * Buffon will have it to be a Variety of his Ara-Tert.—Hist. Ois.u. p. 201. FLAXI
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PARROT, 107 5 —RED AND YELLOW MACCAW. Pl. XXI. LENGTH three feet at least. Bill two inches and a half, in astrait line from point to base, but taken circularly above three inches;depth of both mandibles at the base two inches and a half; colourpale yellow oker; sides of the head, including the eye, bare and pale,reaching quite to the under mandible; head, neck, back, wingcoverts, and all beneath to the vent scarlet ; second quills, and someof the coverts above them fine deep yellow ; prime quills dusky rosecolour, paler towards the ends ; shafts of all the quills white ; lowerpart of the back, rump, upper and under tail coverts rose-colouredwhite; the tail greatly cuneiform, the two middle feathers twentyinches long, the shortest or outer one six inches, the next eight, thethird ten inches ; the six middle ones scarlet, the others pale buff red,growing pale yellowish white towards the ends, but the shafts of allare white ; the quills when closed reach about six inches on the tail;le

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