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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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of Linnasus bewholly unfounded in truth or not, though they have ventured to fe-parate them into diflincl: fpecies. As many kinds of the Duck tribe inhabit the lakes and forefts ofLapland, and other arclic regions, during the breeding feafon, it isdifficult in fome inftances, to diftinguifh the mere differences of fexor age from fpecific diftinctions. The bernacle of which the whitefronted Goofe has been fuppofed the female, were believed abouttwo hundred years to be bred on the coaft of Scotland; but thofe who PLATE CIL who aflerted this, declared alfo, that they were generated out of de-cayed woody or were hatched in the fhell of the Lepas Antifera, amarine production very common in thofe parts. It has feveralmembranous branches or arms, and at the end of each, is fituated amultivalve fhell. The feathered beard of the fifh hanging out of thefhell, were the fuppofed feathers or limbs of the young Tree Geefe,as they were called by the projedors of this whimficai hypothefis. PLATE 105
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PLATE CIIL FRINGILLA CARDUELIS. GOLDFINCH. Passeres.Bill ftrong, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. GENERIC CHARACTER.Bill ftrong, conic, ftraight, fharp. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND ST NO NT MS. • Wings marked in the middle with yellow : the tips white. Tailblack: moft of the feathers marked with a white fpot near the end. Fringilla Carduelis. remigibus antrorfum luteis, extima- immaculata, rectricibus duabus extimismedio reliquifque apice albis. LathInd. Orn. I. 449, 58.Lin. Syji. I. p. 318. 7.Gmel. Syji. I. p. 903.Klein, p. 365. /.Schaf. EL Orn../. 24. Frijck. PLATE CIIL Frifch. t. L Mutter, No. 258.Faun. Arag. p. 87.Merian Inf. t. 173.Goldfinch, or Thistlefinch. Br. Z00L 2. No. 124. Arc!. Z00L 2. p. 283.Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. p, 281*Ruffel. Alep. p. 70.Will Orn. p. 246. /. 46.Alhin. I. t. 64.Rati. Syn. av. 89.Le Chardonneret. Buff. Ois. 4. p. 187. /. 10.PL Enl. t. 4. /. /.BriJ. av. 3. 53.Cardellino, Zinnan. Vov.p. 58. /. 8. 47.Cardelli, Ottna. 10.Stiglitza, Faun. Suec.fp. 236.Stiglitz

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