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 ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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mes du deflbus exceptées, qui fervent à lériger et à la fupporter. Tout le plumage eft blanc avec une teinte de jaune vers la tige des plumes.Cet oifeau fe trouve au cabinet de Lady read, q\ii ma accordé la permiffion den faire le deffein. (10 ) PLATE V. THE RED VENTED COCKATOO. PETIT KOKATOES DES PHILIPPINES, PL. ENLUM. I9I. GENUS PSITTACU3, LIN. SYST. I 39. PARROT, PEN. GEN. BIRDS 5, SIZE,ORBIT,BILL,VENT, COLOUR, of the grey Parrot. yellowifli red. white tipped with yellow. white barred with crimfon ; four feathers under-neath the tail, of a light yellow. of the creft, white, except one or two feathersunderneath, which ferve as a fpring to fup-port it when upright. The reft of theplumage of this bird is white, with a yel-lowifli tint towards the quill ends of thefeathers. This curious bird is in the collection of Ladyread; who permitted me to take a drawingfrom it. V A^- * .i •■■■;/, .•■i:i;iiii ,i -v(<i?„^^«lî n, ■■•-. ) ■••,■■■■ À /, %.
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( ir ) PLANCHE VL LE PERROQUET A POITRINE BLEUE. LA LONGUEUR, LE BEC, LA TETE, LA POITRINE, LES AILES, LES CUISSES, LA QUEUE, environs onze pouces et demi. dun noir debene. le col, et le dos, dune belle couleur decarlate. avec les épaules, dun bleu très riche et foncé. decarlate, les pennes primaires bleues. decarlate parfemées de quelques plumesbleues. très longue, les pennes dégale longueur,decarlate luifante pointées dorange jau-nâtre. Loriginal appartient à Monf. ROBERT child.Banquier, à Londres. G2 »r ( 12 ) PLATE VI. THE BLUE-BREASTED PARROT. SIZE, about eleven inches and a half. BILL, of an ebony black. HEAD, NECK, and BACK, a fine fcarlet. BREAST, and SHOULDERS, deep rich blue. WINGS, fcarlet; primaries, blue. THIGHS, fcarlet, with a few blue feathers intermixed. tail, very long, even at the end of a bright fcarlet, tipped with orange yellow.This bird is in the polfeffion of Robert child, Efq. Banker in London. VI

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