. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ^ ■^/laj cau{/<uyi^f ^A^ S^a^/ie^:t^ant^(r Toi/cZi/ 0 .,-. -//u: J\y IVt/rnjnn/ IJcx 85) The Sea Pheafant Cock and Hen. Anas caudacuta Numb. XCIV, ^CV. IT S Weight was one Pound and eight Ounces; Length, from the Point of the Billto the End of the Tail, twenty eight Inches ; Breadth, when the Wings are extended,thirty feven Inches j its Head is {lender j its Neck long for this Kind; of equal Breadthalmoft throughout; the nether Mandible wholly black, the upper pardy blue partl
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ^ ■^/laj cau{/<uyi^f ^A^ S^a^/ie^:t^ant^(r Toi/cZi/ 0 .,-. -//u: J\y IVt/rnjnn/ IJcx 85) The Sea Pheafant Cock and Hen. Anas caudacuta Numb. XCIV, ^CV. IT S Weight was one Pound and eight Ounces; Length, from the Point of the Billto the End of the Tail, twenty eight Inches ; Breadth, when the Wings are extended,thirty feven Inches j its Head is {lender j its Neck long for this Kind; of equal Breadthalmoft throughout; the nether Mandible wholly black, the upper pardy blue partlyblack, Jtz. black in the middle, on the Sides beneath the Noftrils blue, black alfo acthe Corners of the Mouth, at the very Tip, and in the lower Edges near the Tip; theColour of the Plumage on the whole Head is ferrugineous or brown, behind the Earstindured with a light purple, beyond the Ears on each Side from the hinder part ofthe Head begins a Line of white, which paffes down the fides of the Neck to theThroat; all the Feathers between or adjacent to thefe Lines are black; under theblack the Neck is afh-coloured, then curioufly varied with tranfverfe black and white
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