. 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 . ale and female are very liable to variation in the colour of their plumage; in fome the white fpace on the neck is much moie cWufed than in ethers 5 the fame has been obferved of the portion of 1 white PL
. 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 . ale and female are very liable to variation in the colour of their plumage; in fome the white fpace on the neck is much moie cWufed than in ethers 5 the fame has been obferved of the portion of 1 white PLATE XXXVIII. white on the wings ; and the females differ in the brightnefs of theircolour frequently. Mr. Latham mentions a fpecimen which was (hot near Sandwichin Kent; but it is chiefly found in the northern parts of Great-Bri-tain ; it is obferved to breed on Loch Mari^ in the county of Rofs,and in the IJIe of Hay *. The neft is made of withered grafs, and is lined with the down ofthe birds breaft; it lays from eight to thirteen egg?, like thofe of awild duck, but fmaller and whiter; the young are of a dirty brownlike goflings f. It is found in moft of the northern parts of Europe^ in RuJJiay aboutthe great rivers of Siberia^ and the lake Baikal-, alfo frequent inGreenland, where it breeds on the mores; in Newfoundlandand Hud-fons Bay, * Pennant* Zoo/.. -f Latham Gen. Syn* PLATE 3J. PLATE XXXIX. LOXIA CROSSBILL ^ASSERES. Bill conic pointed. Noftrils oval *, broad, naked. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill flrong, convex above and below, very thick at the bafe*{Noitrils fmall and round f). Tongue as if cut off at the end. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, AND STNONTMS. Both mandibles curve oppofite ways and crofs each other. Malered. Female green. Loxia Curvirostra. Roftroforficato. Faun. Suec. 177.—Linn, Syji. Nat. 2. 171. 96. I. edit. EL 365. N° p. 66. N° 238. * Jvirinausi f Lmbam*s ^Mpfapma FwnaWs Bt. ZoaL PLATE XXXIX. Mutter, N° Reifey p.
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