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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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uperrime defundtus, qui etiam viventem emerat. Latuit prius phyficos fpecies incognita. Reliquis omnibus pfittacini generis videturantecellere mole et magnificentia. De patria nihil habeo quod pro certo dicam: vix tamen dubitem huncpfittacum cum aliis majoribus, iis fcilicet qui Macaones vocantur, AmericamAultralem prsecipueque Brafiliam incolere. Tota avis eft eximie cyanea^ nifi quod ( 58 ) quod fuper frontem et margines remigum levlflima fit colons thalaffini tinftura.Superficies inferior alarum caudseque nigra eft. Roftrum pr?eter folitummagnum validumque omnino nigerrimum. Nigrant quoque crura et pedes;quorum ingens robur. Orbitae, feu fpatia nuda circum oculos colons funtlutei: lucea etiam eft cutis nuda qua mandibulse inferioris bafis cingitur. Partium corporis proportio eadem fere eft huic ac duabus Ipeciebus jammemoratis, Macaoni nempe et Ararauns j quas tamen mole fuperat pfittacusauguftus. Prater fpecimen quod jam defcripfimus nullum aliud in tota Europacreditur extare. THE
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l-l y (A P«1 MP u P. I 1•^ V :!lS!::iiiii;;i - ( 59 ) THE HYACINTHINE MACCAW. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill hooked, upper mandible moveable.Nosi RiLs round, placed in the bafe of the bill.Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. Legs ftiort, toes formed for climbing, viz. two toes forward, and tw«Jjackward. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. Long-tailed deep-blue Maccaw, with the bill and legs black, the orbitsand bafe of the lower mandible yellow. OF all the parrot tribe yet known this bird feems to be the largeft as well as the mod auguft in its appearance. It is alfo a new Ipecies, and was unknown to naturalifts till it was introduced into the LeverianMufeum by the late Lord Orford, who purchafed it living. Nothing certain is known with refpeft to its native country: it mayhowever be ftrongly prefumed that, like the Pfittacus Macao, Ararauna, andthe other large Maccaws, it may be an inhabitant of South America, andprobably of Brafil in particular. Its colour is the richeft and deepeftmazarin

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