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Identifier: naturalhistoryof01albi (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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en, of a dark brown, only the outer Edges of the fore-moft are green; the Tail is made up of twelve Feathers, two Inches and a QuarterJong, dark brown, with green Edges, The Guts have many fpiral Convolutions, andthe blind Guts are very fhort. It is a moft voracious Bird ; it is much delighted, and feeds very fat with Hempfeed j.5t alfo loves Pine and Fir Kernels, and in the Months of January and February buildsits Neft in thofe Trees. They fay, that with one Stroke of its Bill it will divide an.Apple in Halves, that it may feed on the Kernels, by that means doing a great dealof Mifchief in Orchards. In fome Parts of Germany, Bavaria, Suevia and Noricum, they are found in greatNumbers all the Year. Sometimes they come over to us, and in the Weftern Partsof England, efpecially in Worcejlerjhire, make bad Work, fpoiling a great deal of Fruitin our Orchards. Aldro-vandus faith they fing in the Winter, and are filent in the Summer when otherBirds fing, having a melodious Voice. The &/
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