. 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 . a, as far asthe Don river. Towards the fouth it extends to AuHria and Swit-zerland, in the laft of which it appears to be moft frequent, the fpeciesdelighting in the higheil mountainous fituations. The fp
. 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 . a, as far asthe Don river. Towards the fouth it extends to AuHria and Swit-zerland, in the laft of which it appears to be moft frequent, the fpeciesdelighting in the higheil mountainous fituations. The fpecies,though fo widely diffufed, is not common, and in Britain parti-cularlyis very rare. A folitary individual of this kind was lately fhot inthe north of Scotland, upon the authority of which the fpecies isinferted among the migratory vifitants of the Britifh ifles. In point of fize, this bird rather exceeds the greater fpotted wood-pecker in bulk, and meafures in length nine inches: the female isthe fize of the male, and refembles it in every refpe8;, except in thecolour of the crown^ which in the male is yellow, and in the Should the fouthern three-toed woodpecker prove to be avariety of this fpecies, as is generally believed, this is the only threestoed kind of woodpecker at prefent known, the reft of the genushaving four toes, two forward, and two behind. PLATE ,^4. PLATE CXLIV. URIA GRYLLE. BLACK GUILLEMOT. Anseres. GENERIC CHARACTER, Bill ftralght, and fubulate ; the tip of the upper mandible flightlybent, the bafe fub-plumofe : noflrils linear^ and at the bafe : tonguenearly fame length as the bill : legs comprefTed, tridaftyle, and allplaced forward. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND deep black : wing»coverts white.* Uria Grylle. Lath,Ind. Orn. 2, p. 797. n, 9,. CoLYMBUs Grylle: corpore atro, te£lricibus alarum albis. Linn. Fn. Suec. 148. Brun, No. Groenlandicus. Klein, av* p. 168. minor nigra, Columba Groelandica. Brijf. 6. p. 7
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