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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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es : breadth three feet fixinches ; weight feventeen ounces. It is a common bird in Englandaand frequents the inland rivers, fens, and moift meadows many milesdiftant from the fea fhore in winter. Mr. Pennant obferves, that the gelatinous fubftance, known bythe name of Star Sfoty or Star Gelly, owes its origin to this bird, orfome of the kind; being nothing but the half digefted remains ofEarth-Worms, on which thefe birds feed, and often difcharge themfrom their ftomachs. Mr. Morton in the Nat. FUJI. Northampt. has given alfo the fol-lowing curious obfervation :— In the courfe of my correfpondencewith the late Mr. J. Piatt of Oxford, I recollect his having men-tioned, that once meeting with a lump of this Jiar-jelfy, on examina-tion he found the toes of a -Frog or Toad flill adhering, and undif-folved ; and from thence concluded it to be the remains of one ofthefe, having been fwallowed whole by fome bird, and the indigefti-.ble parts brought up in the condition he found it. PLATE i
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PLATE LXXVIII. COLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS. RED THROATED DIVER. Ansere s. Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous belowthe bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flefhy. Legs naked. Feetwebbed, or finned. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftrait, pointed. Upper mandible longed ; edges of each bend-ing in. Noftrils linear. Tongue pointed, ferrated near the bafe.Legs thin, flat. Exterior toe longed : back toe joined to the inte-rior by a fmall membrane. Tail fhort, and confifts of twentyfeathers. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS, Above dufky, marked with a few white fpots. Beneath white.Throat dull red. Colymbus Septentrionalis. Linn* Syft. i. p. 220. 3.Colymbus ar&icus collo rufo. Ar£l. Nidr. L, p. 244, b* 2. fig. 2. Rej> PLATE LXXVIII. Red Throated Diver. Pen. Br. Zool. vol. 2. p. 526. 240.-^ ArB. Zool. N° 443.—Z^//;. Gen. Syn.vol. 5. p. 344.Red Throated Loan. Edw. pi. 97.Le Plongeon a gorge rouge, .Sr//*. Orn. 6. p. in. 3. />/. 11. Jig. 1. P/. £»/. 308. IJlandis &

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