. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . r fpecimen of this fpecies, wTe are informed, was alfo (hot inEngland, and on difle&ion proved to be a male. Whether the fpe-cimen from which Dr. Lathams defcription is taken, differed in fexfrom this, we
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . r fpecimen of this fpecies, wTe are informed, was alfo (hot inEngland, and on difle&ion proved to be a male. Whether the fpe-cimen from which Dr. Lathams defcription is taken, differed in fexfrom this, we are unable to determine. The defcription does notexactly agree with cur bird ; and the fpecimen referred to, is removedfrom the Leverian collection. In the defcription, the eyes areplaced in a white fpace: the eyes in our Bird are furrounded withblack. The legs are alfo defcribed of an olive colour in the deadbird, and green when living; thofe parts appear reddiih in ourpreferved fpecimen : we had no opportunity of obferving the truecolour in the living bird ; but it muft certainly have been more of a red, PLATE CXVffl. a red, or at leaft reddifh brown, than olive. Neither of thefe dif-ferences, however, affect the effential character of the fpecies; andwe confider our bird, beyond difpute, the Gloffy Ibis of Dr. length of this Bird exceeds twenty-two inches. PLATE hj?. PLATE CXIX. EMBERIZA CITRINELLA. YELLOW HAMMER. conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. GENERIC CHARACTER, Bill conic, the fides of each mandible bending inwards; a hardknob in the roof of the upper mandible. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNO NTMS. Crown of the head, throat, and belly, yellow. Tail dark:feathers edged with olive, the two outmoft with white, and a whitefpot on the interior fides, at the tip of each. Emberiza Citrinella : rectricibus nigricantibus, extimis duobus latere interiore macula alba acuta. Nat. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 400. flava. Gefner. av. 653. K
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