Identifier: naturalhistoryof81817dono (find matches)
Title: The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens
Year: 1794 (1790s)
Authors: Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Latham, John, 1740-1837 Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 Gilbert, Richard, 1794-1852, printer Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837. Natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Systema naturae. Regnum animale F. and C. Rivington (Firm), publisher F., C. and J. Rivington (Firm), publisher Law and Gilbert, printer R. & R. Gilbert (Firm), printer Leverian Museum (London, England)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington ...
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f mud and a few twigs or fticks, and linedwith feathers ; and the eggs, which in the firft laying are five innumber, in the fecond four, and in the third three, are of a whitecolour. There are two or more broods in the year. This fpecies is more abundant than the common Swallow, andthough many build and breed here, the Houfe Martin performs anannual migration like that of the common Swallow, and nearly aboutthe fame time. They arrive in England about twenty days beforethe Swallow, and depart again in Autumn. It is a fiiiall bird, being only five inches and a half in length;the colour above blackifli, very richly gloffed with blue; the wings brovvn> PLATE CLXXV. brown^ and tail uniformly brown gloffed with blue; the plumagebeneath white^ and the legs covered with a whitidi down. A fup-pofed variety that inhabits North America^ has the quill and tailfeathers tipped with white. The Houfe Martin, like the reft of its tribe, fubfifts on infe6ls;,which it chiefly takes on the wing. PLATE
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PLATE CLXXVI. LARUS RIDIBUNDUS y.BROWN-HEADED GULL.Ansekes. GENEBIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraight, fliarp-edged_, a little falcated at the tip and tootlilefs^lower mandible gibbous below the point: noftrils linear^ broader onthe fore part, and placed in the middle of the bill. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS.White, head blackifli: bill and legs red. Larus Ridibundus. Linn. Sijji. I. p. 225. 9- Larus RiDiBUNDus : albidus^ capite nigricante, roftro pedibufque rubris. Oedm, Nov. Act. Stockh. 1783. 2. w. /. p. 119. n.g. Larus Ridibundus7 : albidus^ capite fufco maculis albis, 601(0cano^ rectricibiis decern intermediis fafcia nigra.Lath. Ind. Orn. 812. Brown-headed Gull. Lath. Syn. 6. p. 383. U.--Alhiri. ^.pi. 86. Brown-headed Gull. Lev. Mvj. The PLATE CLXXVI. Tlie length of this bird is fixteen inches ; the plumage white,with the head and neck monfe colour: tail white, and compofed oftwelve feathers ; the exterior one of which on each fide is white andimmaculate, the interior black at the tip,

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