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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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t inches and a half. o Whether the,Middle and the Greater Spotted Woodpeckers are ofthe fame fpecies, differing only in the tranfition of the plumage froman incomplete to a more perfeft date, or that it is in reality diftinR,appears to have excited confiderable doubts in the opinions of ornitho-logifts ; fome contending they are, and others that they are not thefame. It is poffiblc the formiCr furmife may be correft, though at thelame time it cannot but be obferved, that the chara61ers of the twokinds appear fufficiently conftant and obvious to authorife a differentconcluhon. The principal diPiindlion that prevails in the two birdsconfifts in tlie Middle Spotted Woodpecker having the whole crownof the head crimfon, while in the Greater Spotted, the ciimfon fpaceis confined to a broad band on the hind head. The latter bird israther larger, and meafures half an inch more in the length than theother. Except the diflerence above-mentioned, the plumage in bothpretty nearly alike. PLATE JSS
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PLATE CXXXVIIL • FRINGILLA SPJNUS,SISKIN,Pas SERES, GENERIC CHARACTER, Bill conic, firalght, and pointed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS, Quill feathers yellow in the middle, the firft four wktiout fpots :tail feathers yellow at the bafe, and at the tip black. Fringilla Spinus: remigibus medio luteis: prlmis quatuorimmaculatis, redlricibus bafi £avis apice nigrlsoLwn. Fn, Suec. 237,Scop. Ann,!, n, 222, Acanthus avicuk. Gefn. av. I. Ligurinus.. Briffl av. 3. p^ 6S, n. 4. Tarin. Buff, WJi, Nat, 4^.p,22\. Abadavine, Alhin, av. 3, t, 76. Zeifchen. Frijch, av. /. 11.Georg. it. p. 174, Siskin, or Aberdevine. Brii, Zool 129. /. S5, PLATE CXXXVni. The Sifkin is a pretty little fpecies of the finch tribe, about the fiza©f the common linnet: the crown of the male is black, the backgreenifh, and the throat brown : in the female the head and neck isgieenifli afii, with brown fpots, and the chin whitifli. The plumage©f the male is brighter than that of the female, though in other refpects;th

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