. 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 . ves that this bird is fome-times feen on the lile of St. Kilda appearing there the beginning ofMay and retiring in June. It lays one large egg clofe to the feamark, fix inches long, white irregularly mark
. 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 . ves that this bird is fome-times feen on the lile of St. Kilda appearing there the beginning ofMay and retiring in June. It lays one large egg clofe to the feamark, fix inches long, white irregularly marked with purplifh lines,and blotched at the larger end with black or ferruginous fpots; andit is faid that if the egg be taken away the bird will not lay a is fuppofed thefe birds are hatched late in the feafon, as the youngin Auguft are only covered with a grey down. When thefe birds leave the Scottilh coail, they retire northward toNorway, the Ferroe ifles, Iceland, Greenland, and appear to be common in the Ar6lic regions, where the nativesare faid to ufe their fkins for garments, and otherwife apply them to .purpofes of utility and ornament. The old birds are rarely feen on land : they fubfift piincipally uponiifli, in queft of which they ufually go out fome diftance to fea, andbeing expert divers, ftiew much facility in the capture of their prey. P L ATE. PLATE CCXLIV. ANAS GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill convex, obtufe, the edges divided into lamellate teeth : tonguefringed, obtufe: three fore-toes conne6i:ed, the hind one folitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND red, with a black flefliy tubercle at the bafe : body white. Anas Olor: roftro rubro, bafi tuberculo carnofo nigro, corporealbo. Lath. Lid. Orn, 334. 2. Anas Olor : roftro femi-cylindrico atro, cere nigra, corpore albo*Gmel Syji. Nat, 501. 47. Cygnus Manfuetus. Raii. Av. p. 136. A. /. Anas Cygnus (Manfuetus) Linn. Syfi. I. p. 194.—Faun. ^ 107. ^. Le Cygne. B
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