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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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h it is reputed of the migratorykind : it migrates as far as Aleppo and Egypt during the winter, andat different feafons appears in various parts of Europe as far to thenorthward as Sweden; it is believed to breed more to the northwardthan the Britifh ifles. During the winter months the Wigeon is taken in plenty in ourmarihes, with others of the Duck tribe, by means of the nets anddecoys^ and as the ileih is much admired, the London markets arepretty regularly fupplied with the Wigeon throughout the winter, andearly part of the fpring. The length of this bird is twenty inches: the female is ratherfmaller, of a brown colour, and undulated: the neck and breall paler:fcapulars dark brown, and the wings and belly as in the male bird.The young males are obferved to referable the female till the followingfpring after being hatched, when they acquire the full plumage, whichhowever they retain only till the end of the fummer^ when they againrefemble the female till the enfuing moulting. PLATE
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PLATE CXCL TURDUS PILARIS. FIELDFARE.Passeres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraigbtilh; the upper mandible a little bending^ and notchednear the point: nollrils naked, or half covered with a fmall mem-brane : mouth ciliated with a few briftles at the corners : tonguejagged. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Tail feathers black, the outerraoft at the inner edge tipped with•white; head and rump hoary* TuRDUs Pilaris: rectricibus nigris: extimis margineinteriore apicealbicantibus, capite uropygio^ue cano. Linn. Fu,Suec. 2\5,—Scop, Ann. 1. p. 133. n. 194.—Briinn. Orn. p. 65. rt. 232. TuRiJUs Pilaris. Gefn, av. 75$,—Aldr. Oni. 2,.p. 595. U 596. Tardus Pilaris five Turdela. BriJ/) av. 2. p. 214. n. 5. Vol. Vm. H Litorne PLATE CXCI. Litoiiie ou Tourdelle. Bu(f, Illji. Nat. des Oif 3, p. 301. t, IQ. /. C.—P/. Eni. n. 490.Fieldfare^ or Feldefare. Brit. Zool. 1.7«. 106. IViIi. Oni. p. 188. t, 37. Jlbiu, ai\ I. t. 36. Lath. Siju, 2. i.p. 24. 11. Length ten inches; the bill ) ellowiih, with

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