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Identifier: naturalhistoryof03albi (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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ible there is engraven a Furrow or Incifiondeeper than that of the Coulter-Neb^ as far as this Groove the Bill iscovered with a thick, fhort, foft Down, like the Nap of Velvet-, theupper Chap is crooked at the end, concave and over-hanging thelower: Both are of equal length, channelled with two tranfverfe Fur-rows or Grooves (the upper for the moft part with three;) that next theHead which is the wideft, and almoft croftes the whole Bill, being white:from each Eye to the corner of the upper Mandible is a narrow whitifhLine: The Mouth within is of a lovely yellow; the Eyes hazel Colour;the Legs are fituate as in the Tengum and Coulter-Neby of a black Co-lour, as are alfo the Feet and Claws; it wants the back-Toe. It lays,fits and breeds up its young ones on the Ledges of the craggy Cliffsand fteep Rocks by the Sea Shores; their Eggs are large and white va-ried with black Spots: This Bird was fent me out of York/hire by myvery good Friend Mr. Knowlton Gardiner to my Lord Burlington. The
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Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759; Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735; Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI;

Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
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