. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. .1 ii' £185] The K I N G - F I S H E R, with Straw-coloured Head and Tall* Ninth Specitu Aletdo Leueocepbaia, Gmel. The IVhitt'headei Kittg'jijbtr, 'T^ HIS is a new fpecies: the wings and the tail are of a deep turquois-blue; the great quills of the wings are brown, fringed with blue; the back is of a fea-green^ the neck, the fore and under (ides of the body white, tinged with ftraw or doe co- lour ; fmall black f^rokes are traced on the white ground of the crown of
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. .1 ii' £185] The K I N G - F I S H E R, with Straw-coloured Head and Tall* Ninth Specitu Aletdo Leueocepbaia, Gmel. The IVhitt'headei Kittg'jijbtr, 'T^ HIS is a new fpecies: the wings and the tail are of a deep turquois-blue; the great quills of the wings are brown, fringed with blue; the back is of a fea-green^ the neck, the fore and under (ides of the body white, tinged with ftraw or doe co- lour ; fmall black f^rokes are traced on the white ground of the crown of the head ; the bill is red and near three inches long; the total length of the bird is a foot. [A] The (her of Celebes, mentioned by voyagers, feems to belong to a fimilar fpe- cies, though rather fmaller: but it is fome- what embellifhed perhaps by their imagi- nation. This bird, fay they *, lives on a fmall fi(h which it watches to catch on the river. It circles, razing the furface of the [A] Specific charafler of the Alctio Leucoeephala : ** It is bloe>green; its head, its neck, and its under furface white ; its wing-quills ; * Hiftoire Generale des Voyages, tern x, /. 459. water. iCi' y-"^^ im khr'^'-^^i-. Â¥ ».,⢠â :â â â '.'; i^imMi- â ' I': I i I ^^â t^ ' ' ... â si' '>U';;l','l til- ]'.. â¢''â '.â ^'^^â¢aM. 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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