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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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nnaeus place it with the Land Rail or Crake> and Ray withthe Water Hens. Pennant obferving the difference between the ef-fential characters of the two latter tribes, and that of the WaterRail, conftitutes a new genus of our fpecies. The Water Rail isdiftinguifhed by its (lender, comprefTed and incurvated bill. TheCrake (Gallinule) by the bafe of the upper mandible reaching farupon the forehead, and being membranaceous: the bill is alio thickat the bafe, and Hoping to the point. The PLATE CIV. The length of the Water Rail is twelve inches, breadth fixteeninches, weight four ounces. It frequents the rufhy and fhelteredfides of rivulets and ponds, among which it can conceal itfelf fromdanger. It is a very fhy bird. Flies indifferently, but walks withgreat celerity, and has been feen to run on the furface of the waterwhen there has been any weeds to bear it up #. The Egg is more than an inch and an half in length; of a paleyellowifh colour, marked with dufky fpots. * Latham, M PLATE 10
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PLATE CV. FALCO OSSIFRAGUS.SEA EAGLE. ACCIPITRES. Birds of prey. Bill and claws flrong, hooked, an angle in eachmargin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females largerthan the males. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-likemembrane or cere. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND ST NO NT MS. Cere and legs yellow; the latter feathered half-way down. Bodybrown. Tail marked on interior webs with white, Falco Ossifragus : Lin, Syft. Nat. Falco Ossifkagus: cere lutea pedibufque femilanatis, ccrpofeferrugineo, rectricibus latere interiore albis.Lath. Ind. Orn. I. p. 12. 7. C v Haliaetus PLATE CV. Haliaetus feu Oflifraga. Rati. Syri. p. jf No, 3, Halia?tos. Turner 1. Sea Eagle. Will. Orn. p. 59. /. 1. Br. Z00L 1. p. 167. /. 17. Lath. Gen. Syn,Bone-breaker, Kolb. Cap. 2. p. 137.Le Grand Aigle de Mer. Brif. Orn. 1. p. 437. No. 9.LOrfraie, Buff. Oif. 1. />. 112. /. 3.Le Grand Aigle de Mer. iV. <???/. 415. (fern.)Gaas Orn. Brunnich* 13.Bein-brecher, Oflifraga.Meer

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