. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. ir,4 5 1646 1647 J^iyUyT^-i^^tdiyU-^/^ l64i) -vf" ^^^^^ 1649. ? ( 74 ) jr^-WLA J643 Foity-three fpecimens of Englifli Birds, among wliich are various fpec'ies oF Laiks ; the Sedge Bird of Pennant; the Petty Chaps; th« Willow Wren; the red-headed Linnt t; the Whin Chat ; t
. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. ir,4 5 1646 1647 J^iyUyT^-i^^tdiyU-^/^ l64i) -vf" ^^^^^ 1649. ? ( 74 ) jr^-WLA J643 Foity-three fpecimens of Englifli Birds, among wliich are various fpec'ies oF Laiks ; the Sedge Bird of Pennant; the Petty Chaps; th« Willow Wren; the red-headed Linnt t; the Whin Chat ; the Stone Chatterer; the gold©n- crt'fted Wren ; the Black Cap ; the fmall fpotted Woodpecker, &c. '^'^^ beak of the Buceros Rhiiiocerus, or Khinoceros Bird ; ditto of the Albi- torfs; Picus Alajor; the Baltimore Bird; two Hamming Birds with their Nells; the claws of the Flfliiag Haivk, and a fkeleton of a bird Four Humming Birds, and two Nells, one with Eggs The kail, and another fpecies of Blumming Bird, with their Nefts ' A curious green uird purple-crefted Humming Bird The fiery-throated Humming Bird, with it's Neft and Egg ; another Humming Bird, and the J-'Iumb-headcu Panot's head A beautiful crimfon-creiled Humming Bird, with a topazlne throat, and it's nell, rare Alcedo , or King's-fiHier, from the I>r^zi/s, and Orlolus Mejcicanu3,.iL. liot/j rare i6^t Two Green Birds, with blue heads, from y!//«."r/t<?—rare 1652 Two birds ol the Pipragenus, (tiot in Linnaui) black with white throats, from Ditto-—fery- rare 1653 A pair of the Pi^ta Ery throcephahi, X. or golden-headed Titmoufc, from Ditto 1654 Two fpecies of Humming Birds, viz. Trochilus Pegafus, and Superciliofus, and Certhia Casiulcn, L. from Ditto .165^ Two rare and beautiful Birds of the Finch kind, one green with a bright chef- nut head, a blue bread, and yellow pinions; the other with an olive back and yellow breall 1656 Pipra Leucocilla, or white crowned Braziilian Titmoufe, an
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