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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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ndible.Nostrils oval and naked.Tongue flightly jagged at the end.Middle TOE connefted to the outer as far as the firft joint SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c.ThruHi of a lead-coloured-brown above, whitilh beneath. Mocking Bird. Rati. Synops. p. 64. No. 5. p. 185. No. 31. Sloan. Jam. 1. 306. No. 34. Catejb. Car. 1. pi. 27. TH E Nightingale, fo uniformly admired as the pride of the Europeanwoods, and fo celebrated from the earlieft ages for its fupereminent mu-fical powers, continued to bear the palm of melody from the reft of the featheredtribe till the difcovery of the weftern hemifphere. At that ftriking period theknowledge of the animal world was increafed in all its branches by a vaftvariety of new and interefting fpecies j many of which exceeded in Angularityof form all that the Old Continent had difplayed. The Opoflums, fo remark-able for the extraordinary manner in which they bear their young about them,long after the period of exclufion, were then firft difcovered : the Pipa, or toad
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TUKIWUS OKPHEUS. THE MOCKi:^© THRUSH. T\iilijlu// Ju^ T.f7fii.iy I./^Oft^ien.Zivcr^ati Mt^ent ( 117 ) toad of Surinam, which in a manner direftly oppofitc, hears its young in nu-merous cells on its back, was anotlier object of wonder to the naturalifts ofEurope : while amongft birds, the prodigious fizc of the Condor, which feizesand carries off fheep, and even attacks and deftroys the larger cattle, oppofcdto the diminutive race of Humming-birds, fome of which are far lefs thanfevcral infeds, and adorned widi colours which no art can exprefs, called forthall that admiration which philoibphic inquirers mull; ever feel at new and cu-rious difcovcries in the hiftory of Nature. Amongft birds poiTelTed of ir.ufical powers, a fpecies of thrufh was found to exill,to whofe voice even die warblings of the nighdngale were judged inferior. It isremarkable that many of the highly gay and brilliant birds of America, aredcftitute of that pleafing power of fong which gives fo peculiar a charm toth

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