Identifier: generalhistoryof08lath (find matches)
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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ndulated with white,and the body spotted with the same as in the Common Sort; but theground colour is more black, and the spots larger; legs blackish. Inhabits Madagascar and Guinea, but is not common.—Pallasseems to think that it may be the bird mentioned by Columella,* asdiifering from the common one; which will account for Plinysthaving thought the Numida and Meleagris to be different birds.—This species is common at Mosambique, as also in Abyssinia. 4.—CRESTED PINTADO.—Pl. cxxii. Numida cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 622. Gm. Lin. i. 746. Pall. Spic. iv. p. 15. t. 2. Borowsk. ii. 184. 2. Nat. Misc. pl, 757.Peintade Comal, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. ii. p. 448. Peintade a Crete, Sonnin. Biif. v. p. 313. Encyc. Orn. 192. pl. 85. f. 3.Crested Pintado, Gen. Syn. iv. 688. pl. 62. THIS is less than the Common Sort. Bill horn-colour; basecovered with a sort of cere, in which the nostrils are placed; there * De re ruslica, lib. viii. cap. 2. f Not. Hist. lib. x. cap. 26 & 48. PL.CXXII.
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Cr^ff^e//..Jr/n /ny/o. PINTADO. 149 are no wattles, but at the angles of the mouth is a kind of fold; thehead and neck, beyond the middle, are naked, of a dull blue,sprinkled only with a few hairs ; the space round the ears mostcovered ; the fore part from the throat sanguineous ; on the head isa large crest, of thick-set, slender, black feathers ; the greater partof which turns backwards, but inclining on the fore part over thebill; the whole plumage is black; the neck and fore part of the bodyplain; the rest covered with bluish spots, little bigger than milletseeds; on some of the feathers four, on others three on each web ;prime quills blackish brown ; secondaries the same, with four spots,two or three on the outer margins broad and white ; the tail, whichhas fourteen feathers, is crossed with undulated broken lines, but hidby the upper coverts; legs blackish ; hind claw elevated from theground, bent, and blunt at the end. Inhabits Africa ; all the three species above described are

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