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Title: A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
Year: 1731 (1730s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759 Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by William Innys in St. Paul's Church yard, John Clarke under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, and John Brindley at the King's Arms in New Bond-Street
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that Length and Bignefs: They are faid to buildtheir Nefts in Holes they make in the Trees where they fecure their Young onesfrom the Monkeys, after this manner; when ftie perceives the Approach of thofeEnemies, fte fo fettles herlelf in her Neft as to put her Bill out at the Hole, andgives the Monkies fuch an unwelcome Reception, that they prefently withdraw andglad they efcape fo: From this Quality of making Holes in Trees, this Bird is calledby the Spaniard, Carpentero, and by the Brajilians, Tacataca, in Imitation, I fuppofe,of the Sound it makes. It feeds upon almoft all the fame Things which Parrots do, but was moft greedy ofGrapes, which being pluckt off one by one, and toffed to it, it would moft dextrouflycatch in the Air before they fell to the Ground; the Flefh of the whole Body wasof a deep violet Colour. This Bird I faw in the Colledtion of Thomas Walker^ Apothecary, in Crooked-Lane, London. I likewife have one of the Bills now by me while I writ this De-fcription. * Tht
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