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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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* 324.La Civetta. Olina 65. Scop. N° 17.Krak-Ugle, Brunnich> 20. The Little Owl appears to be no where a common bird ; in thiscountry it is fcarce, and in France, Buffbn informs us, it is alforare. It is very feldom found in the woods, which others of thefame tribe inhabit, but frequents ruined edifices, caverns in rocks,and other fuch gloomy and folitary places. It lays five eggs, fpottedwith white and a yeliowifh colour. In England it has been chieflyfound in Yorkfhire and Flintfhire. This bird feems liable to much variation in colour. BufFon men-tions one from St. Domingo which had lefs white on the throat, and brown PL ATE CX brown bands on the breaft inftead of longitudinal fpots; and anothervariety from Germany, with the plumage darker than ufual andblack irides. Jprifch has a figure of this bird with irides of a darkblue colour. The length of this fpecies is eight inches. Albinsfigure is quoted in the Synonyms, but it is much more (lender in;ts form than our fpecimen, PLATE
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PLATE XCI. FALCO SUBBUTEO.H O B B Y. f ACCIPITRES. Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in eachmargin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females largerand more beautiful than the males. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-like mem-brane, or cere. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNO NTMS, Cere yellow. Back brown. Back of the head white. Body palewith oblong brown fpots. Legs yellow. Falco Subbuteo i cera pedibufque fiavis, dorfo fufco, nucha albo? abdomine pallido maculis oblongis fufcis.—Linn. Syji. Nat. I. p. 89. 12. edit. 10,Dendro Falco, Raiu Syn. p. 14. No. 8. Subbuteo, p. 15. No. ifr I JEMon, PLATE XCL jEfalon, Aldr. av. I. 187. The Hobby. Will Orn. p. 83, Penn. Br, Zooh No. 6r.Ar£f. Zooh 2. p. 227. o.Lath Gen, Syn. I. p. 103. 90.—— Supph p. 28. 90.Le Hobreau, Brif. Orn. 1. p. 375. No, 2o<Buff.Oif. 1. p. 277. r. 17.Belon, era. 118.Stein Falck. Frifcb. h 86.Laerke-Falk. Brum. 10. n. The Hobby is found in the temperate pa

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