. 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 . Om. 3. p. 558. N° 8. Buff. Oif V. ). 447.—P/. £«/. 502. / 2. The Crefled Titmoufe is fo very rarely found in this country, thatneither Latham or Pennant has defcribed it as a Britifh fpecies; norhas the l
. 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 . Om. 3. p. 558. N° 8. Buff. Oif V. ). 447.—P/. £«/. 502. / 2. The Crefled Titmoufe is fo very rarely found in this country, thatneither Latham or Pennant has defcribed it as a Britifh fpecies; norhas the latter included it in the Appendix of the BrituV Zoology^among the foreign birds which vifit us at unftated periods. It is met with in many parts of France, particularly in Normandy ^and the intermediate country between that and Sweden; writers concurthat it is of a very folitary difpofition, never mixing with other birds,nor jn numbers even with its own fpecies; it is chiefly found amongthe trees in the deep and gloomy recefTes of exteniive fo-refts, and is therefore little known even in thofe parts where the fpe-cies is moft frequent, . Walcot mentions that they are fometimes feen in Scotland^ and oncevifited that country in a large flock; the fpecimen from which ourfigure is copied was fhot in Scotland alfo, in company with feveralothers in the year 1792, PLATE -1. PLATE XXVIL EMBERIZA NIVALIS? Tawny Bunting. conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. GENERIC conic, angular on each fide 5 a hard knob within the uppermandible. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Bill yellow tipt with black. Head and round the Neck brown, marked with black. Legs black. Rump tawny. Tailtwelve feathers, rather forked, exteriors Nivalis Faun. Suec. 117. Frigida. Cat. Englijb Birds, Bunting. Pen. Br. Zoo/. 121. Lath. Gen. Syn. III. Pied Mountain Finch or Brambling. Will. Orn. de Neige3 Hor
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