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Title: Supplement to the General synopsis of birds
Year: 1787 (1780s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837 Latham, John, 1740-1837. General synopsis of birds Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Philips, Edmund, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Padley, C., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for Leigh & Sotheby ...
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eachfide is three times the length of the others, and has, near fixinches of its length, the fliaft naked, being webbed only forabout an inch and a half at the end, and that only on the outerfide : the legs are ftrong and black.PxACE, This inhabits the coaft oi Malabar, and other parts of India, It flies heavily, and is only feen of evenings. That in theLeve-rian Mufeum anfwers the above defcription. But I find a bird veryPl. CVin. fimilar, if not the farine, among the drawings of L.zdy Impey.This is nearly as large as a Ji^fMaw. The whole bird black,glofled with blue : on the fore part of the head a vaft creft, rifinghigh and bending backwards j before it fome loofe feathers:thofe of the hind part of the neck are alfo long and loofe. The tailexaftly correfponds with that of the laft defcribed. This laft is called the Great-crefied Blackbird, The Indianname Bumrauge, It is found in various parts of India, efpe-cially on the hills of the kingdom of Aracan, Place.. SIZE (3 ■■1 cvm.
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//ru^/rr/■ I- /// ///■i SHRIKE. sr 54- BOULBOUL SHR. Description. CIZE of a Fieldfare. Bill yellow, and a trifle crooked at theend : head, neck, back, primaries, and tail, black: breaft andbelly changing to afli-colour : lefTer wing coverts duflcy; greaterand fecondaries brown, crofled with two whitifh tranfverfe bars:legs yellow. Inhabits India; called the Greater BoulbouL Place. ORANGE SHR.T ENGTH feven inches. Bill one inch, black: the top of Description. the head, and each fide of it, parallel with the under jaw, andnape, black : uf^er parts of the neck and body yellow ; beneath,the fame, but lefs bright: the chin and breaft inclined to rufous;wing coverts brown j quills and tail the fame, but darker: legshorn-colour. Inhabits Cayenne* Pi,ace-.^upT>L. 1 Gen-us E 55 1 Genus V. PARROT, WITH UNEVE.N TAILS. N° 134. Pennantian P. 135. BufF-fronted P^ 136. Dubious P. N° 137. Orange-bellied P.138* Peregrine P. ** WITH TAILS EVEN AT THE END. 144. Annber P. 139. Bankian C

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