Identifier: britishzoology01penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ing its neftexternally of the tender (talks of herbs and drydraw; the middle part of fine bents and foft grafs,the infide of hair. It lays five eggs of a whitifligreen color, fprinkled with black fpots *. Its noteis continually repeated, and often attended withodd gefticulations of the wings: is harfh and dif-pleafing: is a fhy and wild bird, avoiding thehaunt of man •, feems of a pugnatious difpofition,finging with an ereded crelt, and in attitudes ofdefiance.Descrip. The head of this bird is of a brownifh afh color,the throat white: the bread and belly white tingedwith red •, (in the female wholly white :) the backinclines to red : the lelTer coverts of the wingsare of a pale brown; the greater dufky, edged withtawny brown; the quil-feathers dufl<y, edged withreddifh brown -, the tail the fame, except the up-per part of the interior fide and whole exterior fideof the outmoft feather, which are white: the lessare of a yellowifii brown. ^il. W. WITH DARTPORD AAr.AJ< B I. K R
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-J^^^^^ilSt Class II. D A R T F O R D. 389 WWITH reddlfli hides: eye-lids deep 161. Dart-. crimfon. A flender bill a little curved ^^^^at the point: whole upper part of the head, neck,and back, of a duflvy brown tinged with a dullyellow: throat, under fide of the neck, the breailand belly deep ferruginous; the middle of thebelly white •, quil-feathers dulky edged with white:baftard wing white : exterior fide of the interiorfeather of the tail white, the reft dufky -, and longin proportion to the fize of the bird : legs yellow. A pair of thefe were fhot on a common nearBartford^ in April 1773, and communicated to meby Mr. Latham \ they fed on flies, which theyfprung on from the furze bufh they fat on, andthen returned to it asain. BILL3 390 GREAT TITMOUSE. Class II. XXV. TIT- BILL flrait, fliort, hard, ftrong, fharp-pointed, a little comprefled.NOSTRILS round covered with bridles.TONGUE as if cut at the end, terminating with two or three bridles. 162. Great. Nonette ou Mefange. £e/o

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