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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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larger andsnore robuft than the male. The male bird is figured in Plate LXXXVIL of this Work ; thefemale differs from the male chiefly in the colour and markings onthe breaft, that part in the male being entirely white, in the female ofa warm duiky tint with numerous trailfverfe femicircular pale brownlines or fcallops difpofed in a pretty regular manner over the wholeof the throat, breaft, fides., and belly. It is fome years fince we defcribed the male of this fpecies: wethen mentioned it as a rare bird, nor has later information leffenedthe accuracy of this remark : within the fpace of many years not morethan three or four fpecirnens, and thofe all males, are recorded tohave appeared in England. The female is far more rare than themale. As this bird has appeared on the eaftern coafts of Britain in thewinter, it is conjectured they have ftraggled hither in their migra-tions from the north (where they occur in fummer)to the more foutherq regions, where they pafe the winter. PLATE 2Po
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PLATE CCVIII. SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA, war.WOODCOCK, Pied-white. Grall.e. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill roundifti, obtufe, longer than the head: noftrils linear : facecovered : feet four-toed, hind-toe confuting of many joints. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Bill ftraight, reddilh at the bafe : legs cinereous : thighs covered:head with a black band each iide. Scolopax Rusticola : roftro re£io baft* rufefcente pedibus cinereisfemoribus te6tis, fafcia capitis nigra. Gmel.Linn. Syft. Nat. 660.—Fn. Suec. 170. Numenius roftri apice laevi, capite linea utrinque nigra, re6iricihusnigris apice albis.— Fn. Suec. i.n. 141. Gallina rujftica. Gejh. av. 477. Scolopax. Bell. av. 272. Briff. av. 5. p. 292. n. 1.B6calfe. Buff. Hiji. Nat. 7. p. 462. t. 25. Woodcock. PLATE CCVTIL Woodcock. Raj. av.p. 104. n. I. ?F/7/. Orw. p. 289. 53. Jtbin. av. i. 70. XflfV/. Gen. Syn. in. 1. p. 129 U The Woodcock in its ordinary (late of plumage is a bird familiarto every one. The variety we have fele&ed for represen

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