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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
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viridi. Reliqua inferiora nigrant, abdomine et femoribus albo macu-latis, Caudse latfc, rotundate, fufcae, margines extcriores albo diftinguuntur.Roftrum validum et breve. Oculo utrique fuperimponitur quafi crifta, feu cu-tis nuda produfla ruberrima, granofa. Crura valida, plumis fufcis veftita. Inter marem et feminam mira diverfitas, cujus in variis avibus varia funtexempla. Mare multo minor femina maxima ex parte lucide ferruginea eft,lineis maculifque nigris variata. Nigrat dorfum cum parte quadam alarum,quarum reliquum fubnigrum maculis pallidis afpergitur. Aves has anteaftis temporibus abundanter protullt Britannia noftra, in par-tibus prjecipue feptentrionalibus. In Scotia etiamnum, rariffime tamen, dicunturinveniri. In Hibernia olim extltifTe feruntur, jam deperdiije. In Arclicis re-gionibus, Suecia nempe et Norvegia, et in Alpinis Italicis frequentes degunt.Amant prsecipue fylvas, baccifque vefcuntur ; gemmis autem et feminibus pinifylveftris creditur eas maxime deleftari. THE
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