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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pour les prendre. * Toutes les arbres appellees pnr les Malais Vv^arinoin font une cfpccî de FiCus Jh■■Chevalier linnè. ( 44 I PLATE XIX, .THE POMPADOUR PIGEON. SIZE, CROWN, CHEEKS, BACK, COVERTS PRIMARIES, TAIL, LEGS. PLACE, lefs than the Turtle-dove. hght bkie. and CHIN, pale yellow. BREAST, and BELLY, light green. of the WINGS, a fine pompadour colour. and SECONDARIES, black edged with yellow.. long, and of a light green.. red. Ceylon. The birds in the plates xviii. xix. xx. are neverleen on the groimd, but always perched onhigh trees, generally the waringin * gro-THEBRi A, on the berries of which they delightto feed. They are good food, and often fhotby the Europeans. The natives catch themwith bird-lime. In this manner, fays Mr.LOTEN, who was Governor of Ceylon, I once-found fome hundreds, if not morCi by breakof day, fticking to the boughs of the greatWaringin-tree, and fent a native fervaiit totake them off. * All die Waringin-trees are a fpccies of Ficus, linn. <V XIX
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^^^•m^ t 45 ) PLANCHE XX. LE PIGEON A FACE JAUNE. LA GRANDEUR, du Pigeon pompadour. LE HAUT DE LA TETE, dun blcu clair. LA FACE, dun jaune pale» LE CORPS ET LES COUVERTURES DES AILES, dmi vcrd clair. LES PRIMAIRES, duu vcrd obfcur, bordé de jaime. LA QUEUE, verte. LES JAMBES, rOUgCS. LA DEMEURE, à Ceylon. M. le Gouverneur loten, qui a vu un grand nombre de ces Pigeons, fup-pofe que celui-ci eft la femelle du Pigeonpompadour, v- ( 45 ) P L A 1 E XV ^ FI E Y E L L O W - F A C E D PIGEON, SIZE, CROWN, FRONT, BODY, PRIMARIES, TAIL, LEGS, PLACE, of the former. light bkie. fine pale yellow. and COVERTS of wings, of a pea-green. dark dull green, edged with yellow. green. red. Ceylon. Governor loten, whom I have con-fulted about thefe Pigeons, and who has feena great number of them, imagines this to bethe female to the pompadour Pigeon. XX

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