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Identifier: supplementtogene00lath Title: Supplement to the General synopsis of birds Year: 1787 (1780s) Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837 Latham, John, 1740-1837. General synopsis of birds Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Philips, Edmund, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Padley, C., former owner. DSI Subjects: Birds Publisher: London : Printed for Leigh & Sotheby ... Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library


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Text Appearing Before Image: g the eyes : the chin is alfo of the famecolour: the upper parts of the body are red brown, and a bar ofthe fame croffes the breaft: the under pkrts of the body rufouswhite: the quills and tail brown, crofTed with narrow bars of apaler brown ; tip of the lad white: the legs are feathered to thetoes with yellowifli white feathers: the claws horn-colour.?iA*_2,, I found this fingular fpecies among a colleftion of birds which were brought from Cayenne, and the fpecimen is now in the Leve-m« coUedlion. A label affixed to the leg named it Le Pkn~gueur. 43-MOUNTAIN. a Ds;scRipTioN, TpHIS bird in colour fomewhat refembles the /^luco Owl, butis certainly a difFerent fpecies. The bill and irides are yel-low : the general colour of the plumage cinereous : chin andfpace round the eyes black : the outermoft quill, and half the next,,ferrated on the outer edge : the tail rather long.Place:. This inhabits Sibiria, but only found in the mountains in the, eajiern parts=-^Mr, Pennant, Order V\. CATI.

Text Appearing After Image: .^/rr/ar/r (Ju-/j^/ E s« 3 O R D E R II. PIES. Genus IV. S H R I K E. N° ^o. Lefler Grey Shr. N 53. Malabar Shr, 51. Black-capped Shr. 54. Boulboul Shr, 52. Nootka Shr. 55. Orange Shr. Great cinereous Shrike, Gen. Sjn. i. p. 160. 4.—ArB. Zool. N 127. j; Lanius excubitor, Faun.Arae,. p. 7\,—Sepp. Vo£. pi. in p. 121. •*- GREAT Cl« NEREOUSSHR. TP HIS fpecies breeds at Hudfons Bay, building half way up a pine or juniper tree, in Jpril. The hen fits fifteen days. It is there known by the name of Wapaw Wijky John^ or Whits Whijkyjohn*. Ferruginous-bellied Shrike, Gen, Sjn. i. p. 163. 8. 8. FERRUGINOUSBELLIED SHR TN the colledion of the late Mr. Boddam this fpecies is entitledCanary-biter, or Fifchal-Bird. * Mr. Huichinsi H a Rea- ED SHR. SHRIKE. I J. Red-backed Shrike, Gen. Syn.\. p. 167. N 15.—JrSl. Zool. N« 131. •f- RED-BACK- Lanius CoIIurio, Brun. N 23, 24,—Faim, Arag. p. 71.—Sefp. Fog. pL itt p. 127. nPHIS is found in the temperate and open parts of Ruffia, butnot in


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