File:Supplement to the General synopsis of birds (1787) (14751013142).jpg

Identifier: supplementtogene00lath (find matches)
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 ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
but the moft faithfulreprefentation will be found in the drawings of Lady Impey, underwhofe infpeftion it was done from the life in India. The fize isallowed to be from five to feven feet in length, and, when Hand-ing ereft, it is five feet high. The bill of a vafl fize, fharp-pointed, compreffed on the fides, of a yellowifh white colour, andopens very far back into the head; the noftrils, a flit placed highup near the bafe : the whole head and neck are naked i the frontis yellow j the fore part of the neck the fame, but more duUj thehind part of the head and neck red, with here and there a wartyexcrefcence, mixed with a few ftraggling hairs curled at the ends:the craw hangs down on the fore part of the neck, like a pouch,and twines round the back part; the lower part of it furnifliedwith hairs, like the reft of the neck, but at the bottom are ingreater number, and of a triangular form : the upper part of theback and ftioulders are furrounded with white downy feathers; the back fi.cr^
Text Appearing After Image:
,.:/c^e^i/YC (yr^O-/ie HERON. 233 back itfelf and wing coverts deep blueifh afli-colour: fecondquills dufky brown: prime quills and tail deep blackifli lead-colour; the laft fcarcely exceeds the quills in length; the fea-thers of it are ten inches long, and twelve in number: the feathersof the fides beneath the wings, and thofe of the vent and undertail coverts, are long and downy, fome of them meafuring near afoot, and of a dufky white colour, as are all the under parts of thebody: the legs are long and black, naked far above the knees,and very fcaly : the toes are webbed at the bafe : the clawsblunt. This fingular fpecies is not unfrequent at Bengal, where it ar- Place andMan-rives before the rainy feafon comes on, and is called Argala, orAdjutant *. It has alfo, from its immenfe gape, gained the nameo^Large Throat; and, from its fwallowing bones, the Bone-eater,or Bone-taker. It is allowed on all hands to be a moft neceflaryanimal, as it picks up vermin from every quarter; fuch zs/

Note About Images