. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Qr^ T/hca:i cuicrdtx I/i£- Haif/tayz Cro7i/ ■Ss ^4. I rmrtffj T/ic Coj^uyfh . ( 23 ) The Cornifli Chough, Coracias jeu Pyrrhocorax. Numb. XXIV. IT weighed thirteen Ounces; the Length from the Point of the Billto the End of the Tail feventeen Inches, the Breadth, when theWings were extended, was thirty three Inches and a half It is like the Jack-Daw but fomewhat bigger; The Bill is long, red,fharp, and a little bowed or crooked; the upper Mandible being fome-thing longer
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Qr^ T/hca:i cuicrdtx I/i£- Haif/tayz Cro7i/ ■Ss ^4. I rmrtffj T/ic Coj^uyfh . ( 23 ) The Cornifli Chough, Coracias jeu Pyrrhocorax. Numb. XXIV. IT weighed thirteen Ounces; the Length from the Point of the Billto the End of the Tail feventeen Inches, the Breadth, when theWings were extended, was thirty three Inches and a half It is like the Jack-Daw but fomewhat bigger; The Bill is long, red,fharp, and a little bowed or crooked; the upper Mandible being fome-thing longer than the lower j The Noftrils round; the Tongue broad,thin, and a little cWen, fhorter than the Bill; the Sides of the FiiTuresof the Palate, and Wind Pipe, and of the Root of the Tongue, arerough, and as it were hairy; Feathers reflected downwards cover theNoftrils; the Feet and Legs are like thofe of the yack-Daws^ but of ared Colour; The Plumage of the whole Body is all over black. The Number of prime Feathers in each Wing is twenty, of whichthe firft is fhorter than the fecond, that than the third, the thirdthan the fourth, which is the longeft of all, bei
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