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Title: Illustrations of ornithology
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Jardine, William, 1800-1874 Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Mitford, R. C. W. (Reginald Colville William), b. 1839, ill Hewitt, Eleanor G., donor. DSI Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI Lenox Library, former owner. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Arsenic compounds
Publisher: Edinburgh : Published by W.H. Lizars London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and S. Highley Dublin : W. Curry Junr. & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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t it possesses, and the (Edicnemes, or Thick-knees, to some species ofwhich, particularly the CEdicnemus magni-rosfris (CEdicneme a gros bee ofTemminck, PL Colo?\ pi. 387.), its bill in proportion and form very nearlyapproaches. We are uncertain as to the sex of the individual we have fi-gured, but, from Temmincks observations, we conclude it to be a female oryoung male, the wing-coverts and scapulars being of a pale smoke-grey.The length is about 15 inches; the bill 2^ inches long, colour black : thecrown of the head is streaked with deep grey ; the throat, neck, and whole ERODIA AMPHILENSIS. of the under parts pure white: upper back greyish-black, the feathers withpaler margins ; the scapulars and smaller wing-coverts pale smoke-grey;greater wing-coverts and quills black, the latter with strong white shafts:the legs are long, and rather slender, and naked for upwards of an inchabove the tarsus joint: the toes are connected by a deeply cut membrane;the hinder toe is slender and long.
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