. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ///f//yni//c TAe. ^oc^J)a^ie/^//rom. ^^eJeoA ff^erc^. ^2. //iariAuc/u, ad _//&■ uJc/z ^of^/Yi /v^errnj/Pcn/: onDcrtn^ (57)The Dottrel Morinellus. Numb. LXI, LXII. ITS Weight was four Ounces and a quarter; Length, from the Pointof the Bill to the End of the Tail, ten Inches; Breadth, when theWings were extended, eighteen Inctes and a half; the Bill, meafuringfrom the Tip to the Angles of the Mouth, was an Inch long; the Headelegantly variegated with white and black Spots, the midd
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ///f//yni//c TAe. ^oc^J)a^ie/^//rom. ^^eJeoA ff^erc^. ^2. //iariAuc/u, ad _//&■ uJc/z ^of^/Yi /v^errnj/Pcn/: onDcrtn^ (57)The Dottrel Morinellus. Numb. LXI, LXII. ITS Weight was four Ounces and a quarter; Length, from the Pointof the Bill to the End of the Tail, ten Inches; Breadth, when theWings were extended, eighteen Inctes and a half; the Bill, meafuringfrom the Tip to the Angles of the Mouth, was an Inch long; the Headelegantly variegated with white and black Spots, the middle Part of eachiingle Feather being black, above the Eyes was a long whitifli Line; theChin whitifh, the Throat was of a cinereous Colour inclining to a lightbrown, as far as the broad white tranfverfe Line which encompaffes theBreaft, and reaches above the Pinion of the Wings on each Side theBreaft; under that Line it is of a dark bay or chefnut Colour, endingnear the Thighs in a broad Shadow of a blackiili brown; the lowerBelly and Thighs are white: the Wing hath about twenty five primeFeathers, of which the firft or outmoft is the longeft, and hath a broadft
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