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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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ringing from the bufn every timeone approached near, and returning to the fame place repeatedly;thereby imitating, as he obferves, the manners of our CinereousFlycatcher^ This fpecies refides with us in the winter. Several fpecimens,which are now preferved in the Leverian Mufeum, were ihot on acommon near JVandfworth in Surrey^ 1782. Mr. Latham appears to entertain fome doubt, whether this fpeciesever breeds in France *. He fays an Intelligent obferver of EnglijhBirds t has informed him, that he never met with this fpecies in theneighbourhood of London^ except in vjinter; and that it difappears be-fore the end of April. Should this be the general fa6l, he can by nomeans reconcile the circumflance of its breeding in France^ as all mi-gratory birds retire northward to breed, not to a warmer climate ; andfhould rather fuppofe, that if it does not quit England in fummer, itwill hereafter be found in the northern parts of it. - - ■ — i» * Kin. des Ois. v. p. 158, •\ Mr, Green, FLATE
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PLATE XL AMPELIS GARRULUS. WaxenChatterer. Passeres. Bill conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftrait, convex, bending tov/ards the point; near the end of theupper mandible a fmall notch. Noftrils hid in the briftles. Tonguecartilaginous, bifid. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Length eight inches. Bill black, irides reddifh: the feathers on thecrown of the head elongated into a creft: the head and upper partsreddifh afh colour. Rump fine cinereous. From the noftrils overeach eye, pafles a ftreak of black. Forehead chefnut. Chin black.Breaft pale purplifti chefnut; belly paler, inclining to vi^hite near thevent. Lefter v^^ing coverts brown; the greater, fartheft from thebody, black with white tips, forming a bar: quills black, the thirdand fourth tipped on the outer edges with white, the five following withyellow: fecondaries aih-colour, tipped on the outer edge with white 5feven of the fecondary feathers have the ends of their (hafts continuedinto a flat horny appe

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