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Identifier: museileverianiex121792shaw (find matches)
Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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( ^99 ) THE RED-BREASTED ROLLER. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftrait, bending a little towards the end, edges cultrated. Nostrils narrow and naked. Toes three forward -, divided to their origin; one backward. Petviant. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Black Rollerj v/ich crimfon throat and bread:. TFIIS bird, hitherto undefcribed, in its general appearance and colour,bears a ftriking refemblance to the Mufcicapa rubricollis, or purple-throated Flycatcher; but is confiderably fuperior in fize. It is not mucJi lelsthan a comnnon crow. Its colour is an uniform black, with a flight blueifhglofs on the back and wings. The beak is flrong, broadifli at the bafe, and(lightly notched or emarginated at the tip. The lower mandible is of a palilhcolour towards the point. On each fide the bafe of the upper mandible arefeven vibrilTae or hairs, which are of a flattened form at their lower part, andrife upwards in a curved diredion. The fore-part of the neck, from abouthalf an inch below the beak, to tl^e bottom of t

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