. 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 . le petit due of Buffon, a birdfound in France, and the fouth of Europe, and diftinguiflied byCmelin under the name of Scops. We are ever unwilling to differfrom our cotemporary collectors, and would not o
. 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 . le petit due of Buffon, a birdfound in France, and the fouth of Europe, and diftinguiflied byCmelin under the name of Scops. We are ever unwilling to differfrom our cotemporary collectors, and would not on any very trivialoccafion be inclined to exprefs our diflent to what appears an efta-blifhed notion, but in the prefent iniiance there really appears to usthe exiflence of an error material to be corre6led. The bird beforeus is alTuredly not the Gmeliniao Scops : we have ever confidered itas the Strix Pulchella defcribed by Dr. Pallas, and have little hefi-tation in conceiving on a more attentive invefligation the opinion ofthofe who think the contrary will gradually yield to ours. ; With PLATE CLXV. With rerpe6l to the general hidory of this cunous bird outknowledge is very circumfcribed : to the beft of our informationit was fhot in Yorkftiire a few years ago. It is unqueHionablyone of the moft elegant of the Owl tribe : its length is fcarceljmore than fix or feven inches. V PLATE. PLATE CLXVL ANAS MARILA. SCAUP DUCK. Anseres. -GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill convex, obtufe, the edges divided into lamellate teeth; tonguefringed, obtufe: three fore toes connected, the pofterior onefojitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Black: fhoulders waved cinereous: belly and fpot on the wingswhite, male. Ferruginous brown, fpot on the wing abdomen, headand ring at the bafe of the bill whiiejfmale. Anas Marila: nigra, humeris cinereo-undulatis, abdomine fpe- culoque alari albis. Ma/. ASf. AngL 62. p. 509. 8.—Fufco ferruginea, fpeculo alarumabdomine capitifque annulo ad roftri bafin
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