Identifier: nouvellesillustr00brow (find matches)
Title: Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Brown, Peter, fl. 1770-1791 Freme, John Rowden, former owner. DSI Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Mammals Reptiles Insects
Publisher: A Londres : Imprimé pour B. White ...
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de exaâitude.La plante eft le manga domittica, ou MANGIFERA INDICA, LINN. et dilUe fois plus grande que la figure. LE CQU, LA QUEUE, LES. JAMBES,LA DEMEURE, ( 6 ) PLATE III. THE BROWN HAWK. GENUS FALCO, LIN. SYST. 124. FALCON, PEN. GEN. BIRDS 1, SIZE, BILL, IRIDES, HEAD, COVERTSSCAPULARS, thirteen inches from the top of the head to the end of the tail,blue tipped with black,yellow,crown of the head, back, and coverts of tail, brown,of the WINGS, brown edged with white,brown fpotted with white. QUILL feathers, dufk.y, edged with pale brown. NECK, tail, LEGS,PLACE, fore-part of the neck, the breast and belly,white marked with numerous femi-circularyellowifh ftrokes. pale brown, marked with four dufky lines. of a very pale yellow. CEYLON. From the collection of Governorloten; who afTures me, the drawing wasvery corredlly taken from the living bird. The plant is called manga domittica, or man-GiFERA indica, LINN.; the fize is half aslarge again as the figure. .J^ Jiimn fLM.^fiî^P^) /-^i
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C 7 ) PLANCHE IV, LE GRAND HIBOU A AIGRETTES DE CEYLON. GENUS STRIX, LIN. SYST. I3I. OWL, P£N. GEN. BIRDS 3. LA GRANDEUR, 1111 pied onze pouces en longueur. Deux livres neuf onces et trois quarts de pefan-teur felon lobfervation de M. le Gouver-neur LOTEN. LES YEUX, jaunes. La face, entourée de cercles de brun pale rougeâtre et rayée de noir. LES aigrettes, courtes, droites ou érigées et pointues. LE DOS, et LES couvertures DES AILES duii bruii pale rougeâtre, rayé de noir. LA POITRINE ET LE VENTRE, blaiics teiuts Cil jauiic et ravés de la même manière. LES PENNES PRIMAIRES ET LA QUEUE, rayés de noir, de blanc et rouge pale. LES JAMBES,LA DEMEURE, nues jufquaux genoux. a rifle de ceylon, ou il efb nommé raja ALLIA. ( 8 ) PLATE IV. THE GREAT CEYLONESE EARED OWL. GENUS STRIX, LIN. SYST. I3I. OWL, PEN. GEN. BIRDS 3. SIZE, IRIDES,FACE, EARS,BACK, BREAST, PRIMARIES, LEGS,PLACE, one foot eleven inches; according to Governor lotens obfervations, it weighs two pounds nine ounces

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