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Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_D39_B49_1820_v_1_001249236-1905 (find matches)
Title: A natural history of foreign birds
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Bewick, Thomas,1753-1828 Davison, William,1780-1858,printer
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works. Chapbooks -- Specimens. McGill University Library Digitized Title McGill Library's Chapbook Collection Birds Chapbooks
Publisher: Alnwick : Printed and sold wholesale and retail by W. Davison
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SS. The albatross is one of the largest and most:midable of all the tribes of aquitic fowl,abounds in the Southern Ocean, partialisabout the Cape of Good Hope and Cape HiThe body is large; and the wings, when exte:ed, measure ten feet from tip to tip. The!which is six inches long, is yellowish, and tennates in a crooked point. The top of the fcis of a bright brown, the back is darker, andbelly is white. It preys when on the wing,;devours not only a large quantity of fish, but asuch water-fowl as it is able to take by surpr FINIS
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FOREIGN BIRDS,

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  • bookauthor:Davison__William_1780_1858_printer
  • booksubject:Birds____Pictorial_works_
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  • booksubject:McGill_Library_s_Chapbook_Collection
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