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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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ied from themale by having the wattles of a fmaller fize, and of a red colour;,while in the male they incline to blue. The female lays a number of eggs in the feafon : they are fmallerthan that of a hen, and of a more rounded form, the colour reddilhwhite obfcurely freckled with darker, and may be hatched under theCommon Hen. It is obferved of thefe bifds, by Dr. Latham, thatthey are fond of having a large range, but if there is much flicker,the hen will often fecrete a neft and appear on a fudden with morethan twenty young ones at her heels. And he further remarks, that^ the fpecies is very clamorous the day through, having a creaking harfli PLATE CCXXXVIII. harfti kind of note, fomewhal like a door turning on its rufty hinges,or an ungreafed axle-tree ; and when at rooft is often fo eafily difturbedas to hinder the reft of the family the whole night through, from itsnoife. There are varieties of this bird, the breaft being fometimes white;and fometimes the whole plumage white. PLATE
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PLATE CCXXXIX. COLUMBA DOMESTICA mr. C.T U R B IT A. TURBIT PIGEON.Paseres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraight, defcending towards the tip: noftrils oblong, halfcovered with a foft tumid membrane. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Colours various, generally cinereous, rump white: band on thewing, and tip of the tail black. Var X feathers of the breafi recuwaie. CoLUMBA DoMESTiCA, cinerea uropygio albo, alarum fafcia, cau-daeque apice nigricante. Liii. Fn, Suec. n. 207.K C. pennis in pe6tore recurvatis. lAnn, Syft.Nat. XII. Lp. 280.—G/we/. Nat. 769. 2. CoLUMBA PLATE CCXXXIX. CoLUMBA Domestica: minor verficolor, dorfo inferiore albo.—X C. pennis in pe6tore recuvis. Lath, Ind. Orn,592. 2. Brif. Jv. Lp.75. F.Frifch. Jv, t, 147.Pigeon a Cravate. Buff. Hiji. Nat. des, oif, 2. 513. t, 23. This is a pleafing and very curious variety of the domeftic Pigeon,the colour of the plumage generally cinereous, and white : tail at theendj and bars on the wing black: eyelids tumid, bill and legs red;he

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