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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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ate charge, will beferioufly difappointcd. The influx of vifitors from the metropolisinto thofe parts during the bathing feafon, (the time in which thofebirds are common,) has efFe6^ed a change fo material in this iefpe(5twithin the laft few years, that we may almoft with as much confi-dence confult the regulations of the* 8th Hairy for the prices ofthe prefent London markets, as confult the authors of ten or twentyyears ago for the prefent price of Wheat-cars in the neighbourhood.of Eaftbourn. Five, ten, or fifteen fhillings a dozen, is fometimespaid for thefe birds^and thought not very immoderate;—it certainly isnot, compared with that of the potted Wheat-ear, the price of which,in the fummer of 1813, as we found charged by a purveyor in thefedelicacies refident in the town of Brighton, was three half-crowns apot, each pot containing two birds !—Such are the charges for frefhand potted Wheat-ears, at the watering places of Suflex, at leail tgtthe occafional vifitors. E PLATE J32
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PLATE CLIL MOTACILLA AtRICAPILLA.BLACK-CAP WARBLER,Passeres; GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill fubulate, ftraight, the man(fibles nearly equal: noftrils oboval,tongue lacerated at the end, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS.Teftaceous, beneath cinereous: cap dulky-black# MoTAClLLA Atricapilla : teftacea, fubtus cinerea, pileo oh- fcuro. Linn, Fn. Suec. 256,—Scop, Ann. 1. n,229.—Brunn. Orn. n. 278, gh ^^ 377.«. 15. GmeJ. Syji, Naf, 970. I. Curruca Atrlcapilla. Bri/. av, 3,p, 380. n, 6. Klein av.p, 79. 14. Atricapilla, f. Ficedula Gefn, av. 348. Aldr. orn, 2. /. 756. /. 757. Ray, Syn,p, 79. A, ^.—IFilJ. orn.p, 16?. /. 41. ^ 2 Capinera, PLATE CLII. Cdpincra. Olin* Vcc, /. 9. Ztnnatu Uov. p, 56, 6^,f, 45, CeZ/i uc Sard. 216.La Fauvcttc i tete noire, Buff. 5. />. 125. /. 8./. 1.—P), EnU h 580./. 2.Melffen Mocnclie, Gunih, Ncft. u. Ey. i. 68.Kloflerwenzel, jFr//r/? av, t. 2$.f, 1. BLACK-c.Ai>. Pemi. Brit, ZooL 1. 148.—ArB, ZsoL 2./. 41S-i Ray, av, 79. 8. Black-cap (Sylvia atricapilla).

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