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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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lower white. This little fpecies inhabits various parts ofEurope and America : in Britain, it may be confidered, if not a rare,at leaft a very local fpecies. The Sand-Martin, as its name implies, is in a great meafurepeculiar to fandy places. Their ufual haunts are the fides of fand-banks contiguous to lakes and rivers, where they live in deepopenings, dug in an horizontal courfe, and at the furtheft end ofwhich receiTes the neft is depofited. Sometimes the neft of the Sand«Martin is built in cavities of rocks, fand-pits, or hollow trees; almoftinvariably, however, on the banks of lakes or rivers, the old birdsfubfifting, for the moft part, on the infefts which it takes on the wingwhen fkimming the fuiface of the water. The neft coniifts of fibres of grafs, intermixed with flraw, and afew feathers : the eggg, about fix in number, are of a beautiful whitecolour, and tranfparent. It cannot be abfolutely afTerted whether theSand-Martin has two, or only a Tingle brood in the year. PLATE
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PLATE CXXVIL MEROPS APIASTER.COMMON BEE-EATER. PlC^E. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill curved, quadrangular, comprefTed, carinate, pointed : noftrilsfmall, at the bafe of the bill; tongue flender, the tip moftly jagged :feet grelTorial. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS, Back ferruginous: abdomep and tail green-blue : two tail featherslongeft ; throat yellow. Merops APIASTER : dorfo ferrugineo, abdomine caudaque viridi-ccerulefcente, reftricibus duabus longioribus,gula lutea. GmeL Syji. 1. /». 460.—£/««. Syji, 1./. 18£. 1. Merops galilaeus. Ilajplq. It, ^^If,—Fn* Aral, p. U Bienenfraas. Wlrjing, Vog, t. 27, La Merope. Cet, uc. Sard, t.p, 93. Ifpida Cauda molli, Kram, EL /. 3S7. Bee- PLATE CXXVII. Bee-eater. Will. p. 147.Albiu, 2. t, 44.Linn, TranJ, v* $.p* 33$, The Common Bee-eater is a bird of very fplendid plumage, themale in particular, the colours in that fex being of a more vivid caftthan in the female. It has been denominated the European Bee-eater ; a term not, perhaps, fufficien

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