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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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ts of the world, butappears in other countries to be more of the migratory kind than withus: and is fometimes met with in flocks of three or four hundred. Itoccurs in Iceland, and on the continent from Lapland to the Cape of Good PLATE CCXXXVI. Good Hope. Kolben fpeaks of it as common in Arabia, Forfcliul inPerfia, and Kampfer in China and Japan : it is alfo found in America,from Hudfons Bay to South Carolina; and was obfeived iike-vife byour navigators in fome of the iflands of the South Seas. The wild Goofe is rather lefs than the tame Goofe, aiid weighsabout ten pounds, while in a Ikle of tamenefs it frequently attains tothe weight of fifteen or twenty pounds, and often more : the lengthis about two feet nine inches, and the breadth five feet. The birdwe have chofen for the annexed figure is rather above the ufual ftand-ard, meafuring from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, twenty-nine inches and a half, and was confidered, in refpe6l to plumage,a very perfe6l bird. P LATE
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PLATE CCXXXVIL LARUS PARASITICUS, ARCTIC GULL. Anseres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraight, (harp edged, a little hooked at the tip, and withoutteeth; lower mandible gibbous below the point: noftrils linear,broader on the fore part and placed in the middle of the bill. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Above black: collar, breaft, and abdomen, white : two middle tailfeathers very long. Larus parasiticus : fupra niger, coUo peclore et abdomine albis,re6tncibus duabus intermediis longiffimis. Lath.Ind. Orn. 819- lo. Laruus parasiticus: icaicibus duabus intermediis longiffimis. Linn. Faun. Suec. 156.—GmeL 60 i. 10. Sterna PLATE CCXXXVII. Sterna re6ljicibus niaximis nigris. It. If got h. 182.—Jet Stockk,1753. p. 291. Cathara6ta paralitica. Brim. N. 127, 128.—Faun. Groen. N** 68. Larus fubfufcus major, 8cc. Brazen Jam. 482. Stercorarius longicaiidus. Brif. vi. p. 155. 3. (male).—Stercorarius Brif. Yi. p. 150. (female).Sterna re6lricibiis maximis oigris. It. Wgoth, 182.—Act» Holm. 1

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