Identifier: naturalhistoryof03albi (find matches)
Title: A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
Year: 1731 (1730s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759 Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by William Innys in St. Paul's Church yard, John Clarke under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, and John Brindley at the King's Arms in New Bond-Street
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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( 91 ) l^he Swan. Numb. XCI. nPHIS Bird is the biggefl of all the whole-footed Water-fowl with*- broad Bills, it weighed twenty pounds; from the tip of the Bill tothe end of the Tail were fifty five Inches, to the end of the Feetfifty feven; the diftance between the tips of the Wings extended, wasfeven foot and eight Inches. The whole Body is covered with a foft and delicate Plumage, in theold ones purely white, in the young ones grey; the Quill of the greaterWing Feathers of this Bird are greater than in the Wild Swan, the Billin the young ones of the firft Year is of a led Colour, having a roundNail as it were at the tip, and a black Line on each fide, from the Nof-trils to the Head; from the Eyes to the Bill is a triangular Space, bareof Feathers, of a black Colour, the Bafe whereof refpeds the Bill, theVertex the Eyes. In old ones the Bill is red, the Hook or Nail at theend being black: at the Bafe of the Bill grows a great Lobe of tuberousFlefh of a black Colour, bending forward

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