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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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he combs of wafps being found in the aforefaidnefts, in which were two young ones, covered with a white down,fpotted with black; their feet of a pale yellow, their bills between thenoftrils and the head white, their craws large : in the crops were foundlizards, frogs, he. In one of them were found two lizards entire,with their heads towards the birds mouth, as if they fought to creepout.—c This bird runs very fwiftly like a hen.—Alb. i. t. 2. The eggs of the Honey Buzzard are varioufly defcribed by differentauthors; the fpecimens formerly preferved in the Portland Mufeumwere of a very deep red brown, with ferruginous blotches of chefnut;Mr. Latham fays he was informed by Mr. Boys^ that they are of ablueifh white, marked with irregular rufous fpots; the fliape of theegg almort globular \ ufually three in the neft. Mr. Pennant fayshe was favoured with a defcription of the eggs by Mr. Plumly \ cc theywere blotched over with two reds, fomething darker than thofe of theKeftriL PLATE 31
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HATE XXXL LANIUS COLLURia Red-Backed Shrike,Butcher-Bird, or Flusher. A-ccipitreS. Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in eachmargin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger andmore beautiful than the males. GENERIC CHARACTER.Bill hooked towards the end, with a notch near the tip of thetipper mandible; bafe not furnifhed with a cere, Tongue jagged atthe end. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.Bill black. A black ftroke through the eyes. Head light grey*Upper parts of the back, and wing coverts, ferrugineous. Brea(t5belly, and fides, bloflbm-coloured. Legs black. Tail black; all thefeathers, except the two middle ones, more or lefs white at the bafe.Lanius Collurio. Cauda fubcuneiformi, dorfo grifeo,rectricibus quatuor intermediis unicoloribus, roftroplumbeo.—Lin, Syft. frat. i. 94, 3* edit* 12*Faun. Arag. />. 71.Scop. Ann. I. p. 24. N° 19.Kram. p. 363.Mullen p. 11.r Sepp* Fog. pi. in p. 117, D Lanius PLATE XXXI. Lanius Tertius. Aldr. av. L 199. Lanius minor ruffis

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