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 (14747488864)

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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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Bnuu 190. Thefe Birds are common in the fummer throughout England, andnre fometimes met with in the winter: it frequents feveral northerncountries, fuch as Sweden, Norway, Rufiia, Siberia, Greenland, &c.It is alfo found in Jamaica, in Carolina, and other parts of NorthAmerica. It frequents the borders of ponds and lakes, and makes its neftamong the reeds, grafs, &c. The neft is large, and contains fourteenor fifteen, fome fay twenty eggs, two inches and a quarter in length,of a pale brownifh white, fprinkled with minute chocolate-colouredfpots, in a very regular manner. Thi PLATE CVI. The food confifls of fmall Fifh and water Infers, grain, roots ofplants, &c. which it takes partly by diving into the water. Theadult birds are as large as a fmall fowl. The colour of the fkin onthe forehead, Briffon fays, is of a full red; Latham fays it is white,except in the feafon of incubation, when it is not of a full red,though it is tinged with that colour. C 4 PLATE ior/ <§, y mt
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PLATE CVII. COLUMBA OENAS. STOCK PIGEON. Passeres.pill conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill foft, ftrait, Noftrils hajf covered by a naked Ikin. Toesdivided to their origin. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Bluiffi. Back of the neck fhining green, changeable. Two fmaUblack bars acrofs the wings. End of the tail black. Columba CEnas. Linn, Syji. Nat, Columba CEnas: caerulefcens, cervice viridi-nitente, dorfo pofticocinereafcente, fafcia alarum duplici apicequecaudas nigricante. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 589. 1. Columba, lignorum proprie, Klein, av. p. 119. 8.—Id. ov. p. 33. §tock Pigeon, or Stock Dove. Br, Z00L—ArR. Zoo), Alhln. PLATE CVIL Albin. 2. /. 46. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. p% 604. I.—SuppLp. 197.Le Pigeon fauvage, 5rj/. Orn. I. p. 86, A7*. 5. It is the opinion of Pennant, that all the beautiful varieties ofPigeons, fo highly efleemed by Pigeon-fanciers, are defcended origi-nally from one fpecies, the Stock Dove. Latham has, with confider-able induflry,