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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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ures in authors to which he refersbeing lefs fatisfafiory than might be defired : it was once fuggefted toLIS by a Swedifh naturalift, that it could not be hortenfis, but whetherthe objedion arofe from a due confideration of the two birds, we arenot enabled to determine. With refpc£l: to the Lefler Pettychaps, the Motacilla Hippolais ofLinnaeus, it is fo definitively diflinft from the Greater Pettychaps^tliat wc Ihould have fcarccly deemed it necefiary to enter upon the(ubje6l in this place, if it had not been obferved, that a late in-genious author has defcribed it under the name of Hippolais, andthus confounded the Greater and Lefler Pettychaps together as onefpecies. The firft we have already defcribed at length, the other isa fmall bird of very delicate ftruiSlure, and not larger than the little,or Golden-crefted Wren, and is the fmalleft of the feathered tribe thatinhabits Britain.—The Lefler Pettychaps will be found delineatedin one of the immediately fucceeding Plates. PLATE
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PLATE CLL MOTACILLA OENANTHE. WHEAT EAR, OR WHITE RUMP,Passeres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill fubulate, ftraight ; the mandibles nearly equal: noflrilsoLoval; tongue lacerated at the end, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNO NYMS^ Back hoary: front, line above the eyes, rump and bafe of the tailwhite; through the eyes a black band, lyfoTACiLLA Oenanthe : dorfo cano, fronte alba,oculorum faf- cia nigra. Linn. Fn. Suec. 254. GmeL Syjl, NaL966.15. Fahr, Faun. Groenl. p. 122. 84.Scop. Ann. L No. 250. Brilnn. No. 276. ■ - Kramer. El. p. 374—4.Nozem. mderJ. Voo-eL /. 81, Sylvia PLATE CLI. Sylvia Oenanthe ; dorfo cano, fionte llnea fupra oculos uro# pygio bafique caudae albis per oculos fafcia nigra. Lath, Ind. Orn, f, 529. 79 Curruca major, peftor^ fubluteo, Frijch, av, t. 22, Oenanthe f. vitiflora. Aldr, orn. 2,p, 762. /. 763.. Jonjl, Av. 12.3. /. 45./. 13, Vitiflora, Brif S,p. 449. 33. Culo bianco Zlnnan, p, i. 6, f. 24.—C^/// uc, Sard.f, 223.Le Cul-blanc, Vitrec, ou Motteux. Buff. 6. p. 2$7.—F

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