. 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 . PLATE CCXV. Anas Platyrhynchos, roftro nigra pleno. Aldr. Orn. 3. p. 230,t. 233.— Raj. Av. p. 145. n. 2. Chipeau. Buff. Hiji. Oif. 9. V-\ 12.—PJ. En/. ft. 958. Gadwall, or Gray. J. ^. 145. A. 2. Orw. p. 3
. 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 . PLATE CCXV. Anas Platyrhynchos, roftro nigra pleno. Aldr. Orn. 3. p. 230,t. 233.— Raj. Av. p. 145. n. 2. Chipeau. Buff. Hiji. Oif. 9. V-\ 12.—PJ. En/. ft. 958. Gadwall, or Gray. J. ^. 145. A. 2. Orw. p. 374. t. Ge/i. Syn. 111. 515. w. 6l. The male Gad wall will be found reprefented in Plate the prefent work: the female is the fubje6i of the annexedPlate : the length is twenty-one inches. PLATE. PLATE CCXVLTETRAO SCOTICUS, fern. RED GROUS, RED GAME, MOORCOCK, qtGO R COCK, female Galling. GENERIC CHARACTER. Near the eyes a fpot, which is either naked, or papillous, orrarely covered with feathers. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Traufvei fely ftreaked with rufous and blackifh: fix outer tail featherseach fide blackifh. Tetrao Scoticus : rufo et nigricante tranfverfini ftriatus re6lri-cibus 6 utrinque exterioribus nigricantibus. Orn. 64). 3 5, fern. The * PLATE CCXVI. The male of the Red Grous is delineated in Plate CCV. Thefemale is a trifle fmaller than the male bird: the colour more in-clining to teftaceous than dark red; the black tranfverfe lines, orfcallops larger and placed more remotely; and the whole of theneck, breaft, and back elegantly ftudded with fmall whitiih fpots.
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