. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. .;*.ll the EUROPEAN BLACKBIRDS. 337 XIT. The BANIAHBOU of Bengal. Turdui Canoriis LnntHt Faujlui, Linn, and Gmcl. Merula BengaUnJis, BriJT. The Broivn Indian Thriijh, Ed>v. The Crying I'brujh, Lath. Its plumage is every where brown ; deeper on the upper-part of the body, lighter on the under, and alfo on the edge of the coverts and wing-quills; the bill and legs are yellow; the tail tapered, about three inches long, and ex- tending half its length beyond the clofed
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. .;*.ll the EUROPEAN BLACKBIRDS. 337 XIT. The BANIAHBOU of Bengal. Turdui Canoriis LnntHt Faujlui, Linn, and Gmcl. Merula BengaUnJis, BriJT. The Broivn Indian Thriijh, Ed>v. The Crying I'brujh, Lath. Its plumage is every where brown ; deeper on the upper-part of the body, lighter on the under, and alfo on the edge of the coverts and wing-quills; the bill and legs are yellow; the tail tapered, about three inches long, and ex- tending half its length beyond the clofed wings. Such are the chief circumftances which charac- terize this foreign bird, the fize of which fome- what exceeds that of the Throftle, Linnasus informs us, on the authority of fome Swedish naturalifts who had travelled into Ada, that the fame bird occtirs in China; but it feems there to have been afFeded by the cli- mate, being gray above and ruft-coloured be- low, with a white flreak on each fide of the head. The epithet of canorus^ which Linnseus bellows on it, no doubt from accurate information, im- plies that thefe foreign Blackbirds have an agree- able warble. â i â ; â¢' ,' â , ' 1 * ' 1 . = â t it' - \ ^^ ilii'' â 1 \. : "i*., : â VOL, III. XIII. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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