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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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T^UTi- iZllrin de^in. iyUzLcua a.FiV oir (M) The Laurey from the Brafils, Numb. XIII, THIS Bird is fomething bigger than a Pigeon; theBill large, of a pale BufF Colour; the Irides of theEye yellow, the Pupil black; on the top of the Head it hatha tuft of Feathers of a bright blue; all the reft of the Headand Neck are of a Scarlet Colour, below that a beautifolRing of yellow; the Breaft and upper Part of the Backis alfo Scarlet, the covert Feathers of the Wings greenintermixt with yellow. The Quill Feathers are of a beau-tiful ultramarine blue; the lower Part of the Back, Bellyand Thighs, are white intermixt with rofe Colour, endingnear the Tail with a Mixture of Scarlet. The Tail is pur-ple intermixt with a redifh brown; the Legs and Feet areAlh-colourd, the Claws black. This Bird is the moftbeautiful of all the Parrot Kind that I have yet feen; itis very docible, learning any Language, and pronouncingvery articulately any thing he is taught. I faw one ofthefe Birds fold for twenty Gu

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