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Identifier: museileverianiex121792shaw (find matches)
Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
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od huic noftrsocciput fafcia lata, tranfverfa, coccinea, et quad fubcriftata decoretur. Verifimileigitur videtur diverfam efle fpeciem a Loxia craffiroftri, nifi forte malint non-milli marem elTe foeminje quam defcripfit Lathamus. THE ( 46 ) THE CRIMSON-CRESTED GROSSBEAK. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftrong, thick, and convex.Nostrils fmall.Tongue truncated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Black Grofsbeak with a white fpot on the wings, and a crimfon creft-likcband on the hind-head. THIS bird, of which the native country is not certainly known, has neveryet been figured, and may be confidered as one of the rareft of its ge-nus. It approaches very near to the Loxia craffiroftris of Mr. Latham, butdiffers in having on the hind part of the head a very remarkable creft-likezone, or broad tranfverfe band, of the richeft crimfon. It is therefore ex-tremely probable, that it is a diftindt fpecies from the Loxia craffiroftris, (unlefsit fhould, perhaps, be rather confidered as the male of that fpecies.) LOXIA
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cji.k. L oxiA 35E & r.J. r s . /W/.r/^-/ #,• f/i,- A-l ^rirrffi />/.•/.,pfi:/.y It.iriit Itl /./■trriiiii Mi/rfum ( 47 ) LOXIA GUTTATA. CHARACTER GENERICUS. Rostrum conico-gibbiim, frontis bafi rotundatum verfiis caput: mandibula inferior margine laterali inflexa.Nares in bafi roftri.Lingua integra. Lin. Syjl, Nat. p. 299. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. Loxia fufca, pedtore nigro, roftro uropygioque rubris, lateribus corporis nigrisalbo maculatis. BELLiE hujus aviculje, nunquan: fortafle antea depiftre, veram magnitu-dliiem in tabulam tranftulimus ab eximio fpecimine quod fuppeditavitMufeum Leverianum. Auftraliam incolitj et inter pulciierrimas fui generisjure numeratur. THE ( 48 ) THE SPOTTED-SIDED GROSSBEAK. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftrong, thick, and convex.Nostrils fmall.Tongue truncated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Brown Grofsbeak with black bread, red bill and rump; the fides of the bodyblack fpotted with white. THIS beautiful little bird, which the plate reprefents in its natural fi

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