. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . HIS Bird was about the bigneis of the common Grof-beak^ defcribedin VoL the firjl Numb, 56. Its Bill isvery large and ftrong, from a broad Bafe ending ina (harp Point of the Figure of a Cone having a large Ca-vity within, of a dark alh Colour, the Pupil of the Eyesblack, the Irides white, the Head and part of the Neckblack, ending in a iliarp Point on the fore part of the reft of the Body, Wings and Tail are of a beautifulyellow Colour, intermixed with a greenifh Shade
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . HIS Bird was about the bigneis of the common Grof-beak^ defcribedin VoL the firjl Numb, 56. Its Bill isvery large and ftrong, from a broad Bafe ending ina (harp Point of the Figure of a Cone having a large Ca-vity within, of a dark alh Colour, the Pupil of the Eyesblack, the Irides white, the Head and part of the Neckblack, ending in a iliarp Point on the fore part of the reft of the Body, Wings and Tail are of a beautifulyellow Colour, intermixed with a greenifh Shade 5 the Legsand Feet of a blewilh afh Colour. This Bird was broughtfrom Gamboa on the Coaft of Guinea^ and was in the Pof-feffion of his Grace the Duke of Chandos in an Aviary athis Graces Country Seat at Edgeworth^ where I went todraw rhc fT.
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