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Title: Illustrations of ornithology
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Jardine, William, 1800-1874 Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Mitford, R. C. W. (Reginald Colville William), b. 1839, ill Hewitt, Eleanor G., donor. DSI Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI Lenox Library, former owner. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Arsenic compounds
Publisher: Edinburgh : Published by W.H. Lizars London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and S. Highley Dublin : W. Curry Junr. & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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alf the natural size : the bill is gamboge-yellow,strong, and gently arched, and with a few irregular serratures on bothmandibles: the crown of the head, cheeks, throat, and sides of the neck,are chocolate-brown, the feathers rigid, and with bristly points : the oc-ciput is furnished with a crest composed of long narrow feathers, of un-equal lengths, chocolate-brown, margined with white : the upper partsare deep smoke-grey, the side and terminal spots of the feathers choco-late-brown : the under parts are white, with large oblong spots of brown :the quills are black, glossed with purplish-blue : tail long, the exteriorfeathers black, the two middle black towards their tips, but passing intodeep smoke-grey at the base. We received the specimen from which the accompanying Plate is taken,along with a valuable collection of skins, from Sierra Leone, where theywere collected by the exertions of William Fergusson, Esq. surgeon tothe Royal African Corps, and remitted for our collections. 26.
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