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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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s,and those sufficiently conspicuous ; neither is the bill at all like thatof a Tinamou, but of a Quail: besides, the crest is an inch long,whereas it is only said that Azaras bird erects the feathers of thehead as a crest, not that any of the feathers are elongated. Also,the Ynambu-guazu is sixteen inches and a half long, which is morethan double the length of the Crested Quail. 72.—HUDSONIAN QUAIL. Perdix Hudsonica, Iiid. Orn. ii. 655.Hudsonian Quail, Ind. Orn. Sup. 224. LENGTH five inches. Bill pale brown; plumage in generalpale brownish cream-colour, marked on the back of the neck, andover the thighs with irregular spots of white; back, wings, and tail,crossed sparingly with lines of white, bounded on their lower partwith black; under parts of the body paler than above, and unspotted;legs dusky brown. Inhabits Hudsons Bay, from whence I received it. A specimenwas also in the Leverian Museum, very little differing. • See Hernand, Av. cap, xxx. and Bris. i. 257. PL.CXTX. :^^*-»
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X.>jvu-juu ^a f lUxia<L,/ PARTRIDGE. 331 • •♦ WITH FOUR TOES, CLAW OF THE HIND ONE WANTING. 73 —CROWNED PARTRIDGE—Pl. cxxx. MALE. Columba cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 596. Gm. Lin. i. 774. Perdix coronata, Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixii. , Tetrao Porphyrio, Nat. Misc. pl. 84. Phasianus cristatus, Mus. Carls, iii. t. 64. Tetrao viridis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 222.—male and female. Le Roloul de Malacca, Son. Voy. Ltd. ii. 174. pl. 100. Uncommon bird from Malacca, Phil. Trans. Ixii. p. 1. pl. 1. Cryptonyx coronatus. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. xciv. Id. Pig. if Gall, 8vo. iii. 526, Lesser crowned Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 622. 623. pl. 58. Violaceous Partridge, Nat. Misc. iii. pl. 84. Crowned Partridge, Gen, Syn, Sup. ii. 278. FEMALE. Perdix viridis, Ind. Orn. ii. 650. Tetrao viridis, Ind. Orn. ii. 650. Gm. Lin. i. 761. Caille verte. Tab. Enc. Orn. 219. pl. 95. f. 4. Green Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 777. pl. 57. Id. Sup. ii. 278. .SIZE of a small Pigeon ; length about ten inches. Bill aboveblack

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