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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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the reft of the wings, except the coverts andfcapulars, in which the grey prevails, is black. The tail is of the laft-nicnlioncd colour; the legs dufky. The Golden Eye is of the migratory kind, and vifits us only in thewinter, at which feafon it is feen in fmall flocks on many of our fea-coafts. In the fpring thefe birds retire northward, remaining, duringthe breeding feafon, in Ruffia, Norway, and Sweden. In Americait is found throughout the fummer in Hudfons Bay, where it isobferved to frequent frefh water lakes. Its principal food confifts offliell-fifh, frogs, and other reptiles, mice, &c. The neft, which iscornpofed of grafs, and lined with feathers, is of a rounded form, theeggs from feven to ten in number, and white. Linnaeus tells us,tns fpecies foraetimes builds in trees, a circumllance rather fingular,but neverthelcfs, we believe, corre6fly ftated, as fome other fpecieaof the duck tribe have been known to build occafionally in the fameor fimilar fitnations. PLATE J32>
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PLATE CXXXHI. PELECANUS CARBO. CORVORANT- Anseres, GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ilralght, hooked at the point, and furnifhed with a nail : nof-trils an obliterated flit; face rather naked ; legs eG(ually balancing thetody: toes four, palmated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS.Tail rounded: body black: head fubcrefted* PeleCANXJS Carbo : cauda rotundata, corpore nigro, caplte fubcriftato. Linn, Fn, Suec. HS,Bhalacrocorax. Gefn,av,6S3.Qorvus aquaticuis, Aldr. Orn, 3,p.^Sl, t.2G3/Cormpran. Buffi Htji. Nat, 8. p, 310. /. 26.Corvorant, Ara.ZooL 9,, p. 581. ». 509,•. •■ . . • BtIuZoqU^^. ^. 29U i • *»♦ C 2 The PLATE CXXXIII. The Coryorant meafures three feet in length, in breadth four feet,and weighs feven pounds. Towards the northern parts qf Europe thefe birds are more abund-*ant than in the fouth. They breed in Kamtfchatka, Greenland, Ice»land, and other countries of the north, and from their habits of lifeare almofl conflantly found contiguous to the fea. Their breeding-places

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