. 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 . fpecies of the fametribe. It makes a very large neft of grafs and aquatic plants in thewater, without any faftening to the banks, fo that the neft rifes or fallswith the water: it lays five or (ix eggs of
. 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 . fpecies of the fametribe. It makes a very large neft of grafs and aquatic plants in thewater, without any faftening to the banks, fo that the neft rifes or fallswith the water: it lays five or (ix eggs of a dirty yellowifh whitecolour, which are kept conftantly wet by the water that rifes throughthe neft: the natural warmth of the Bird when fitting excites a fer-mentation in the vegetables, and ferves to hatch the young brood. It is a moft expert diver, and is faid by SaJerne* to be able to ftay aquarter of an hour under water. If purfued it plunges into the water,and feldom appears again within the reach of gun-fhot. Length of this fpecies is ten inches, weight fix ounces and a half*The male very nearly correfponds in colours with the female, andboth vary according to their age. Having no tail, and the legs beingplaced far behind, give a very aukward and clumfy appearance to thisbird. Common in moft parts of Europe, and mentioned as a nativeof America, * Salcrns Orn. p. 377, PLATE *7. PLATE LVIL PARUS TITMOUSE, Pa conic pointed, Noftrils oval, broad, naked. GENERIC CHARACTER, Bill fhort, ftrong, entire, Briftles at the bafe. Tongue bluntwith briflles at the end. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNO NTMS, Crown, Wings, Tail, blue. Forehead and Cheeks white. Backgreenifh, Beneath yellow. A white bar acrofs the Wings. Parus C^ruleus : remigibus casrulefcentibus: primoribus mar- gine exteriore albis, fronte alba, vertice caeruleo. Fn. Sv.—Lin, Syji* Nat, i. 100. p, 190. 4. edit. 12. Scop, Ann, 1. /« 163. N° 244. Krarn. el 379. N° 3. Mutter, p. 34. N° 285. A
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