. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . our Minds, and are more apt to believe the affirmative, viz. that thereis fuch a Bird as they picture; let others (fays he) who have the hap to*fee it defcribe it more exadliy, and fo remove all Doubts and Scruplesconcerning this matter out of the Minds of the Learned and Curious,.This Bird I had out of the Colledion of Sir Tbomas Lowther. r/fe e: ( So )The White Woodcock, Numb. LXXXV. TS Bill was of a yeilowifh Colour, the Head, Throat,Breaft, Belly and Thighs were white, the Hi
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . our Minds, and are more apt to believe the affirmative, viz. that thereis fuch a Bird as they picture; let others (fays he) who have the hap to*fee it defcribe it more exadliy, and fo remove all Doubts and Scruplesconcerning this matter out of the Minds of the Learned and Curious,.This Bird I had out of the Colledion of Sir Tbomas Lowther. r/fe e: ( So )The White Woodcock, Numb. LXXXV. TS Bill was of a yeilowifh Colour, the Head, Throat,Breaft, Belly and Thighs were white, the Hind partof the Neck, and fide of the Breaft had a few dark Fea-thers fcattered here and there j the upper fcapular Feathersare of a reddifh brown, the reft of the fcapular Featherswhite, with red Edges; the covert and Quill-Feathers arewhite with a Caft of red, the Tail white, the Rump juftabove the Tail red; the Legs and Feet are yellow. I wasordered by Sir Robert Abdy to draw this Bird; it was ftiotby Ofay Macdowel Efquire, and is preferved in a fine glafsCafe at the Southampton Coffee-Houfe in Chancery Lane,. The ^^■i
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