. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 69 name pardalis lignifies a mottled plumage. All the other properties belong equally to the family of the plovers or of the lapwing. Wiliughby affures us, that this bird is feen frequently in the territories of the Venetian flate, where it is called fquatarola. Marfigli reckons it an inhabitant of the banks of the Danube. Schwenckfeld inferts it in the num- ber of Silefian birds j Rzacynfki, in thofe of Poland; and Sibbald, in thofe of Scotland. Hence
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 69 name pardalis lignifies a mottled plumage. All the other properties belong equally to the family of the plovers or of the lapwing. Wiliughby affures us, that this bird is feen frequently in the territories of the Venetian flate, where it is called fquatarola. Marfigli reckons it an inhabitant of the banks of the Danube. Schwenckfeld inferts it in the num- ber of Silefian birds j Rzacynfki, in thofe of Poland; and Sibbald, in thofe of Scotland. Hence this fpecies, like all the lapwings, is ex- tremely difFufed. Does Linnaeus allude to any peculiarity of its hiftory, when in one of his editions he denominates it tringa augujli menjis * f And does it really appear in Sweden in the month of Auguft ?—The hind toe of this bird is fo fmall, and fo little apparent, that with Briflbn we fhall not hefitate tc refer to it the brown lapwing of Schwenckfeld, though he fays exprefsly that it wants the: hind toe. To this fpecies alfo we fliall refer, as being clofely related, the variegated lapwing -f* of Briflbn. Aldrovandus gives the figure without any defcription; but its appellation ihews that he knew the great refemblance between the two birds; all their proportions are nearly the Ame ; the ground of their plumage differs only BM^ 'm\ 111: Y. • SyJ}. Nat. ed. 10. Gen. 60. Sp. 11. I Tringa-Squatarola, ' Tringa Varia, Linn, m. J Hi I m V .*u. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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