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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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it is not indeed furprifing that the accurate Linnaeus fliould con-?fiderthe Tawny and Mountain Buntings with their varieties, as theSnow Bunting in its different approaches to its fummer appearance. Pennant is of a different opinion, and has defcribed it under theEnglifh name Tawny Bunting, as a diftincl: fpeeies, Latham has alfodefcribed it as a different fpeeies in his general Synopfis ; and in thelift of the Birds of Great Britain, in the fupplemental volume, he adds€t Emberiza Frigida, and refers to the defcription of the Tawny-Bunting in the Britilh Zoology, N9 12 x. The name <c Emberiza glacialis has been alfo given to the fame;or a mere variety of this bircl. Our fpecimens are about fix inches and three quarters in lengthytwelve inches and three quarters in breadth ; weight an ounce. PLATE
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PLATE XXVIIL COL YM BUS TROILE.Foolish Guillemot, A N S E R E 3. Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane; broad, gibbous below*the bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flemy. Legs naked* FeetWebbed, or finned. GENERIC CHARACTER.Bill ftraight, Hender, pointed. Noftrils linear, at the bafe of th$bill. Legs near the tail. Feet webbed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Bill black. Infide of the mouth yellow. Tips of the imall quills^breaft, and belly white. The reft deep moufe colour.Colymbus Troile. Linn, Syfl% L p. 220.2.—F11. Sv. N° 149.Brun. N° 108.Mull N° 152.Frijch. L 185.Guillemot, or Sea Hen.Lonruvia Hoieri. Rait. Syn. p. 120. A. ^Will Dm. p. 324. pi. 65,Albin. 1. pi. 84.£dw. pi 359. Fig. I. B z Foolish PLATE XXVIIL Foolish Guillemot. Br. ZooL N° 234. 4ra. ZooL N° 436. Br. Muf.— Lev. Muf.The Lavy. Martins Voyage, St. Kilda, 32.Le Guillemot, Brlfi Orn. VI. p. 70. 1. pi. 6. fig. I. Buff. Olf. 9. p. 350. pi 25.—PI. Enl 903.Lommia. N. Com. Petr. IV. 414.Sea-Taube, or Groenlandifcher Tauc

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