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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Winchester (Eng.) Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ellow,with only three toes on each foot, placed forwards. Inhabits Africa.—In the collection of Mr. Bullock. 91.—HOTTENTOT QUAIL. Hemipodius Hottentottus, Turnix Hottentot, Temm, Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. v. iii. 636. SIZE of a Lark; length five inches. Bill slender, brown;eyelids above red ; plumage in general pale rufous, with whitish,rufous, and black spots; crown of the head black, the feathers edgedwith rufous, with a slender line of the same down the middle ; throat VOL. VIII. Y Y 346 PARTRIDGE. white, the feathers edged with rufous; belly yellowish white, markedwith brownish spots; nape ash-colour, with deeper markings of thesame; tail crossed with zigzags of black and rufous, and a largewhite spot; legs yellow ; toes short; the wings reach within tenoreleven lines of the tail. The female is much the same, but the colours less distinct. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. M. Levaillant found it verycommon about Hottniqua Land : the female said to lay eight dirtygrey eggs. PLCxxxm ^^^f
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i/rif/-Orr-a^^e/T r JytcmAe^M:^ TRUMPETER. 347 GENUS LXV—TRUMPETER. 1 Gold-breasted ;; 2 Undulated (; 3 Chili -DILL moderate, the upper mandible a little convex. Nostrils oblong, sunk, and pervious. Tongue cartilaginous, flat, fringed at the end. Leas naked a little above the knees. Toes three before and one behind, the last small, with a roundprotuberance beneath it, which is at a little distance from the ground. 1 —GOLD-BREASTED TRUMPETER.—Pl. cxxxiii. Psophia crepitans, Tnd. Orii. ii. p, 657. Lin. i. 2C3. Gm. Lin. i. 720. Borowsk. iii.p. 81. Mus. Lev. t. 57. Vosmaer, Monog. 1768. p. 6. Tent. Man, cfOrn. i. p. xcv.Grus Psophia, Pall. Spic.w. t. 1. Phasianus Antillarum, Bris. i. 269. Id. 8vo. i. 75. Raii, p. 56. 2. Sect. 2.LAgami, Buf. iv. 487. pl. 23. PI. enl. 169.Trompetenvogel, Schmid, Vog. p. 111. t. 97.Le Caracara, Buf. ii. 292. Hist, des Antil. ii. cap. 5. §. 8.LOiseau Trompette, Uescr. de Sarin, ii. 162.Gold-breasted Trumpeter, Gen. Syn. iv. 793. pl. 68. SIZE of a large

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