. 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 . * infant off-fpring of that bird, although there may be certain inRances in fome fpecies of thejoung bird being larger tliau the adult. Thefe PLATE CLXXIV. Thefe birds occur on the fea fliore and in the v
. 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 . * infant off-fpring of that bird, although there may be certain inRances in fome fpecies of thejoung bird being larger tliau the adult. Thefe PLATE CLXXIV. Thefe birds occur on the fea fliore and in the vicinities of greatrivers in various parts of Britain, but it is faid not in any confider-able plenty. In fevere winters they have been known to vifit thebanks of the Thames in company with others of the Gull tribe, andone ibot near Richmond, about twenty years ago, by a well-informedfportfman was tranfmitted to us as a rarity. Within a few years paftthey appear to have become more common about the banks of theThames, and in that of 1812 in particular, when they occurred infome abundance. It may not be amifs to add, that in the fummer ofthe year 1801, we were favoured with a recent fpecimen of the Wagel({hot in Cornwall) from the late Mr. Hutchins, a very intelligentOrnithologift, the plumage of which did not differ from that of theWagels {hot in winter^ as before mentioned. PLATE r/6. I PLATE CLXXV. HIRUNDO URBICA. HOUSE GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill fmall, weak, curved, fubulate, and deprelTed at the bafe : gapelarger than the head: tongue iliort, broad cleft: wings long: tailgenerally forked, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND , beneath white : tuil without fpots. HiRUNDO Urbica : nigro-coerulefcens fubtus alba, retricibus im-*maculatis. Lath. Lid, Orn. 573, HiRUNDO Urbica : retricibus immaculatis, dorfo nigro-coeru-lefcente, tota fwbtus alba. Linn. Fn. Succ. ^71--^Linn. Si/ft. L p. 344. 3,—GmeL Syjl. Lp. lOir. Hirundo minor f. ruftica. Briff. ai). 2. p. 4
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