. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . the bottom to the middlemoft j theTefticles white and round; the Gall large j the Guts eleven Inches long; the blindGut Ihort and little; in the Stomach, when difleded, was found Flies and build their Neft of Grafs, Bents, and Feathers, in which they lay five or fix Eggs,pretty large and of an oblong Shape, almoft wholly white, except toward the blunterEnd J they are encompafied with a Circle of dark red, as it were a Coronet. ThisBird was a Cock. The hen is a very f
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . the bottom to the middlemoft j theTefticles white and round; the Gall large j the Guts eleven Inches long; the blindGut Ihort and little; in the Stomach, when difleded, was found Flies and build their Neft of Grafs, Bents, and Feathers, in which they lay five or fix Eggs,pretty large and of an oblong Shape, almoft wholly white, except toward the blunterEnd J they are encompafied with a Circle of dark red, as it were a Coronet. ThisBird was a Cock. The hen is a very fmall matter lefs than the Cock -, the Bill of a dusky cinereousColour with a Dafh of red j the Top of the Head, Back, and prime Feathers of theWings, of a dark rediih brown; the lefler Rows of covert Feathers are inclining tored ,• the Throat and Breaft of a dusky white with fome circular tranfverfe Lines of adusky Colour, after the manner of the/i^«^r/&; the Belly and the Thighs are white^the Legs and Feet of a pale redifti brown; The Tail of the fame Colour of the Back,the under Part white. rh& ^4. ^a/Z4U/^/i^(J. ^Z%? ^/^^/^ /n^/r^rr-^z/y/. t^
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