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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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d furnifhedwith an upright comprefled flefhy creft or comb, the throat naked andred; the neck carunculated on each fide. The Magellanic Vulture. Mus. Lez. No. i. /. 4. pi. i. TN the defcription of this fpecies in the firfl: Number of the prefent work,I had fome reafon to doubt whether the fpecimen there figured could beconfidered as the real V^ultur Gryphus of Linnaeus, or genuine Peruvian Con-dor ; from the circumftance of its wanting the crifi:a compreffa, or ered: fhar-pened crefl: or comb on the head, which makes fo confpicuous a figure inthe flight defcriptions which have commonly been given of that bird by tra-vellers and naturalifts, and which Linnaeus had fixed upon as the principalcharacter of the fpecies ; for which reafon it was thought advifable to dif-tinguifti it by a different name. The magnificent fpecimen, however, nowdelineated, and which was brought from the Magellanic coafl:s by CaptainMiddleton of the Royal Navy, and foon after introduced into the Leverian Mufeum,
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( 5 ) Mufeum, has long fince difpelled every doubt relative to the fpecics; andit is perfeftly clear, that the former fpecimen, or Vultur Magellanicus, wasthe female Condor in a lefs advanced flate of growth. By this highly intcrefling fpecimen we are enabled to afcertain with prc-cifion many particulars relative to the appearance of the bird which have hi-therto efcaped obfervation. Of thefe one of the moft remarkable is a kindof gular pouch, or large dilated fkin, of a blucifh color, proceeding fromthe bafe of the lower mandible^ and reaching to fome diftance down the neck.On each fide the neck is alfo fituated a row or feries of flat, carneous, femi-circular, or ear-fliaped flaps or appendages, to the number of feven on eachfide, and which gradually decreafe in fize as they defccnd ; being fo difpofedas to lap flightly over each other. The whole neck and bread are of a redcolor, and perfectly bare of feathers ; being only coated here and there witha few ftraggling filaments of blac

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