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Title: Illustrations of ornithology
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Jardine, William, 1800-1874 Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Mitford, R. C. W. (Reginald Colville William), b. 1839, ill Hewitt, Eleanor G., donor. DSI Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI Lenox Library, former owner. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Arsenic compounds
Publisher: Edinburgh : Published by W.H. Lizars London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and S. Highley Dublin : W. Curry Junr. & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ls andtail, of the same colour, and tipped with greyish-white: on the nape of * We are thus unwillingly obliged to deprive Sir J. E. Smith and Mr Macleay of the honourof having their names recorded in these species ; but have endeavoured to remedy this in our Hal-cyon Macleayii and Columba Smithii, both species from New Holland, and also in the Linnean So-cietys collection. PTILONORHYNCHUS NUCHALIS. the neck, a beautiful pink or purplish-red fascia, consisting of narrow fea-thers, and surrounded by a ruff of satin-like plumes, the tips distinct, rounded,and turning inwards. The specimens we examined were in moult, but theyappeared as if this nuchal ruff would become slightly more elongated thanthe rest of the plumage, when the birds attain a perfect state. Lowerparts of the body and beneath the wings yellowish-grey, tinged with brown.Legs brownish-black. The female is somewhat less, and wants the nuchal fascia and ruff of sa-tiny feathers, the plumage is more deeply tinged with brown.
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