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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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length is three feet fix inches; it is a flout bird, and is armed withformidable talons: it may be d i ft ingui fried from the Golden Eagle bythe legs, which are, for half their length, bare of feathers in the SeaEagle: the legs of the Golden Eagle, on the contrary, are featheredto the toes. It inhabits moil parts of Europe. In thefe kingdoms it is found,in Scotland and Ireland ; and fometimes, though rarely, in England.Gur fpecimen was mot in the Hebrides. It is obferved of thisfpecies, that it grows much larger in North America than in Europe.In Ruflia and Siberia it is very common. This Bird lives chiefly on Fifh, which it takes in the fame manneras the Ofprey. It is fuppofed that the Eagle mentioned by Kolbeny is PLATE CV. is this fpecies ; he fays, at the Cape of Good Hope it feeds on the LandTortoifes, which it carries into the air to a confiderable height, and,by letting it fall on fome rock, dafhes the fhell in pieces, that it maymore eafily pick out the flefh. C % PLATE 1.0 6
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PLATE CVL FULICA ATRA.COMMON COOT. Grall^e. Bill roundifh. Tongue entire, fiefhy. Thighs naked. Toesdivided, GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill fhort; from this a callus extends up the forehead. Noftrilsnarrow. Toes furnifhed with a broad fcalloped membrane. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND -S TNO NTMS. A thin fkin covers the fore-part of the fkull. Body black. Feellobed or fcalloped. Fulica atra, fronte calva, corpore nigro, digitis lobatis. Lin. Syji. Nat.Fulica atra, fronte incarnata, armillis luteis, corpore nigricante* Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 777. 1.Fulica recentiorum. Gcfner. av. 390. C 3 Corn- PLATE CVI. Common Coot. Rail. Syn. p. 116. A, I. 77^77. Orn. p. 319. //. 59. Albln. I. pi. 83. Pt7?«. Br. Zcol. No. 220. />/. 77. ^?. Z^/. A7£. 416. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 275. I. — Sufpl 259.La Foulque, ou Morelle, Brf. Orn. 6. p. 23. I. //. 2. ^. 2. £///?: O//. 8. /. 211. />/. 18.—PL enl 197.Fols2:o o Polon. Zinan. 108. o Blas-klacka. Faun. Succ.jp. 193. Lifka. Scopoli. No. 149. Kleiner Blcefsling, Gunt

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