Identifier: generalsynopsi3111785lath (find matches)
Title: A general synopsis of birds
Year: 1781 (1780s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for Benj. White
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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that of aDuck, and rounded at the end. Wings fmall, in proportion to the fize of the body, and ufelefsfor flight. Legs naked above the knee. Toes two in number, and both placed forwards. This and the following, with a third, which late obfervationshave proved to be of a far different family, were placed by Lin-naeus under one genus. From the very diffimilar characters, wehave thought right again to feparate them, according to Brijfon,who has thus done in his Ornithology. M ACK O Struthio Camelus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 265.—Seep. Ann. i. N° 160; Pl. LXXI. LAutriiche, Brif. Orn. v. p. 3. pi. 1. f. 1.—Buf. Oif. i. p. 398. pi. 29.— PL Enl. 457. (the female).Oftrich, Rati Syn. p. 36. 1.—Will. Orn. p. 149. pl. z.<—AlbitL iii.pl. 53. —Gent. Mag. xviii. pl. in p. 580.Black Oftrich, Broiun. llluftr. pl. 16. (the male). Lev. Muf. Description. ^HIS is, without doubt., the largeft bird in the creation : itis near eight feet in length, and when Handing upright is from Yl. XXXI.
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MAcl O^rJft OSTRICH. 7 from fix to eight feet in height *. It has a fmall head, notmuch unlike that of a Goofe -, the bill is alfo fomewhat fimilar,but lefs deprefled, and four inches and a half in length, horn-coloured, with a dufky tip: irides hazel; eyelids befet withhairs: the head, and greateft part of the neck, are bare of fea-thers, of a flefh-colour, here and there befet with a few fcatteredhairs : the lower parts of the neck and body are covered withblack feathers, which are Angularly loofe in their webs, andtotally unlike thofe of any other bird : the quill feathers, andthofe of the tail, are of a perfect fnowy white, fome of them hereand there fringed or tipped with black, and are long and beau-tifully waved in fhape : on each wing are two fpurs, about aninch in length; and on the breaft is a callous, bare, and hardfubftance, ferving the bird to reft on when it firft bends forwardsto fit on the ground: the thighs and fides of the body arenaked: the legs are ftrong, of a gre

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