Identifier: zoologicalillust01swain (find matches)
Title: Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Bayfield, George Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Insects Mollusks Shells Zoology
Publisher: London : Baldwin & Cradock
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ntion, as it cannot wellbe associated with either of the preceding : this we havedescribed below. Another genus that may be thoughtconnected with Otira, is Terebellum: a group very ablyillustrated by Mr. G. Sowerby, in his Genera of Shells.To that work we must refer the reader for those reasonswhich shew its more immediate relation to Ovula. It is,in short, one of those forms too hazardous to class withouta complete knowledge of the animal. O L I V A striata. Shell small, cylindrical, sub-effuse, distinctly marked by regularlongitudinal strise; upper part of the body whorl ivith one,lower part with four, belts; spire short, channelled, sitb-papillary, naked; base of the pillar striated and externallydetached by a groove. Ancillaria canalifera? ? Lam. Syst. 7, 415. We do not find this fossil clearly described. Our speci-mens appear to be from the London clay. Its form seemsanalogous to Conohelix among the Mitres. The line ad-joining the figures denotes the natural length of the shells,
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I S A K 1 S ewtoUM P S A R I S cristatus. Crested, or White-backed Saris. Family Todidae.—Nobis. Bill lengthened, depressed, boat-shaped. Tarsi moderate, weak,the three anterior toes more or less united. Wings and tailshort. Sub-family Psariana.—Nobis. Head very large, depressed. Mouth very wide. Bill thick, de-pressed, convex above. Feet weak, tarsi rather short, toesunited at their base, the outer manifestly longer than theinner; claws broad, compressed; anterior scales transverse;lateral scales small, numerous. The male generally with aspurious quill between the first and second. Genera. Psaris. Cuv. Rictus smooth, wings lengthened, the first quillmuch longer than the fourth, tail short, even. Type, Psaris Cay anus.—Cuv. Pachyrhynchus. Spix. Rictus bearded, bill shorter, wings morerounded, tail lengthened, graduated. Type, Psaris niger.—Nob. Specific Character. Blackish brown, beneath pale fulvous, base of the wings with aconcealed snowy spot, spurious quill broad, crown bl

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