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Identifier: birdsofamericafr04audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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e length, stout, first and second nearly equal, fourth longer, andslightly adherent at the base. Claws strong, arched, compressed, acute.Plumage compact, glossed. Wings long, with the first quill short, the fourthlongest. Tail of moderate length, rounded. Roof of upper mandible con-cave, with five ridges; tongue emargined and papillate at the base, hornytoward the end, thin-edged, with the point slit. THE RAVEN. ■+ Corvus Corax, Linn. PLATE CCXXIV.—Male. Leaving to compilers the task of repeating the mass of fabulous andunedifying matter that has been accumulated in the course of ages, respectingthis and other remarkable species of birds, and arranging the materials whichI obtained during years of laborious but gratifying observation, I will nowattempt to delineate the manners of this species which I have noted in thecourse of a life chiefly spent in studying the birds of my native land, whereI have had abundant opportunities of contemplating their manners, and of N°4 5 PI. 2 24.
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