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Title: The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens
Year: 1794 (1790s)
Authors: Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Latham, John, 1740-1837 Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 Gilbert, Richard, 1794-1852, printer Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837. Natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Systema naturae. Regnum animale F. and C. Rivington (Firm), publisher F., C. and J. Rivington (Firm), publisher Law and Gilbert, printer R. & R. Gilbert (Firm), printer Leverian Museum (London, England)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington ...
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make a fhort circuit, and alight in the fame placeto be fhot at in turn. Our bird is feventeen inches in length, weight twenty-five ounces>breadth twenty-feven inches and a half. Brunnich mentions a variety, * Penn. Br. Zqol.,f mihugbby. With PLATE XXVIII. with a broader and fhorter bill, and yellow margins. Muller fpeaks ofa variety, with a white ring round the eyes, and a line of the fame co-lour behind. They are found in moft of the northern parts of Europe to Spitz-her gen J, the coaft of Lap mark, along the White and Icy Sea toKamtfchatka; are found at Newfoundland and in fome parts of NorthAmerica. It is called Guillem by the Welch, Guillemot or Sea Heny at )Nor-thumberland and Durham 5 in the fouthern parts, Willocks. \ Both Pennant and Latham has feparated the Guillemots from the Divers, mandGrebes ; to the firft Latham has given the generic title Una after Briflbnj the iecond hecontinues under the Linnsean genus (Colymbui) j and the third he calls Podiceps, PJLATfi ■y 19
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PLATE XXIX. COLYMBUS AURITUS.Eared Grebe. A N S E R E S. Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous belowthe bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue fleftiy. Legs naked. Feetfinned, or webbed. GENERIC CHARACTER.Bill ftraight, (lender, pointed. Noftrils linear, at the bafe of thebill. Legs near the tail. Feet webbed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Bill curved a little upwards at the point. Lore and irides crimfon.Head black, with an orange-coloured tuft of feathers behind each eye*Breaft filvery white. Ridge and tips of the wings white. Legs olive.Colymbus Auritus. Linn, Syji. L p. 222. 8.Fn, Sv. 152.Scop. Ann. L N° IOO.Mutter, p. 20.Eared Qrebe. Br. Z00L NQ 224. pi. 79.Arcl. Z00L p. 499. B,Lath, Gen. Syn. 5. 284. 4.Eared Dobchick. Edw. pi. 96. fig. 2,La Grebe a oreilles. Brif. Qrn. 6. p, 54. 6> C Le PLATE XXIX. Le petit Grebe hupp6. Buff. Oif% 8. p. 235.Novegis Sav-Orre, Soe-Orre.Bornholmis Soe-Hoene.JJlandis Flauefkttt* Brun. 136. The length of this Species is twelve inches; they i

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