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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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or accidental vifi-tation,>^ Upon a comparifon of the Red with the Grey Phalarope it willbe found, that independently of other differences, the form of thebill affords a diftinftion between the two birds, by which they maybe readily determined; in the Grey Phalarope the bill is ftouter,rather more compreffed, and broader : in the red kind it is weaker,the tip pointed and a little bent. It has been urged againft this dif-tindlion, which appears to us fatisfa£lory that by improper treatmentin the drying and preparation of the bird in the hands of an inju-dicious preferver, thefe chara6lers may be fo far difguifed by par^tial contractions as to be no longer worthy of dependence; an argu-ment in our opinion of little weight, fmce it will apply equally tothe diftinftions drawn from the chara61;erifl:ic form of the bill inevery other bird as well as this. The variety we have figured is ofthe fame fize as the red Phalarope of other authors, and meafures in length feven inches. * H % J38
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PLATE CLVIIL HIRUNDO RUSTICA.SWALLOW, GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill fmall, weak, curved, and awl fliaped, with the hafe deprefled;gape larger than the head: tongue (hon, broad, cleft: wings long:tail in general forked, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Blueifli black ; beneath white, front and chin chefnut: tail fea-thers, except the two middle onps, with a white fpot. HiRUNDO Rustica; nigro-coerulefcens fubtus albida, fronte gulaque caftaneis, reftricibus lateralibus maculaalbanotatis. Lath, Gen. Syji. 2. 572. 1. HiRUNDo Rustica: redlricibus, exceptis duabus intermediis, macula alba notatis. Linn. Fn Suec, 570.—?Gmeh Syfl. Nat. 1. p. 1015.—Scop. Ann. 1. N^m^.—Brun. N* 289. Kram. EL p. S80. 1.—Georgl.p. \75.—Frifch.t. lH.^KIem. Av.p. 82,Z.—Schceff. EL Orn. t. 40. HiRUNDO PLATE CLVIIL HiRUNDO DoMESTiCA. Raii Syn. p, 71. A, 1.-^7/, Om. p, 155. /. ii. p, 486. 1.—Id, ivo. 1, p. 3^4. Hlrondelle de Cheminee. j^w/: 6,p, 591. /. 35./. 6.—-P/. EnL64<S. Schwalhe, Gun/h. p, 6^. h 16,

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