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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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is period, as an addition to theBritifti Tringae of recent date. Our remarks, however, teftifv thecontrary, and very obvioufly demonftrate that the Purple Sandpiperof the Leverian Mufeum, has fuffered the fate of many other of itsvaluable articles, in having been for years before the public, and yetappearing to have been as little known, or at leaft as little noticed asif it never had been placed there. Befides the Leverian fpecimen above recorded, we have anotherexample of the Purple Sandpiper, captured on the Kentifti coaft withinthe laft four or five years, and which merely differs from that fpecimen,in being fomewhat fmaller or lefs robufl, and in having the generaltint of the plumage more inclining to dufky. The length of theformer is nine inches; of the latter, eight inches and three quarters. Like the reft of the birds that haunt the fea fhores, the PurpleSandpiper feeds on the fmall marine worms, and infe6ls found on thebeach as the tide recedes from the Ihore. Vol,, vm. PLATE
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PLATE CLXXVIIL ANAS FERINAGREATER RED-HEADED WIGEON.Poker, OR PocHAiiD>ye/72* GENEBIC CHARACTER. Bill convex, obtufe, the edges divided into lamellate teeth : tonguefringed, obtufe : three fore-toes connedted, the hind one folitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Cinereous waved: head brown: pectoral band^^cnt, and rumpblack : wings cinereous. Female moredulky: head pale reddifli brown: peroral bandobfcure cinereous and brown : wing coverts cinereous. Anas Fekina : cinereo-undulata, caplte brunneo, fafcia pectoralicriflo uropygicoque nigris. Linn. Fn, Suec, 127#—Brumi. Orn. n. SO,—GmeL 530. SI. Anas erythrocephala. S. G. Gmelin it, 1. p. 70 Anas fera fufca. Rail. Syn. p. 143. A, 10. Penelope. Bnf. ti.jy. 384, 19. t. S5./. 1. D a Mil- PLATE CLXXVIII. Millouln. Buff. ix. p. 2l6. PL Enl 803.Rothhals. Blcch, Bef. der Berl. Nat. 4. p. 603. L 17./. 5, 6.Poker, Pocliard^ Red-headed Wigeoii. Br. ZooL 11. iV® 284.JVill. (Angl.) p. 367. t. 72. Thefe birds are common in the fens duiing

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