. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. Ttit GREAT flG-EATEk Of JAMAICA. 323 Upper mandible is blackidi; the lower flefh- coloured: the upper furface of the back, of the head, and of the wings, is brown* with an obfcure tinge of greenifh: the edges of the quills are of a lighter greenifh yellow : an orange colour predominates on the under fidd of the body, from the throat to the tail: the inferior coverts of the wings, and all thofe of the tail, and alfo the inner webs of the quills^ are of the fame colour.
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. Ttit GREAT flG-EATEk Of JAMAICA. 323 Upper mandible is blackidi; the lower flefh- coloured: the upper furface of the back, of the head, and of the wings, is brown* with an obfcure tinge of greenifh: the edges of the quills are of a lighter greenifh yellow : an orange colour predominates on the under fidd of the body, from the throat to the tail: the inferior coverts of the wings, and all thofe of the tail, and alfo the inner webs of the quills^ are of the fame colour. From the angle of the bill a black ftreak ftretches acrofs the eye ; an- other extends below it: between thefe two, and under them, the orange forms two bars i the legs and toes are blackifh. The bird is nearly as large as the red-breaft, and not quite fo thick. Edwards remarks that it bears great rcfemblance to what Sloane, in his Natural. Hiftory of Jamaicp, calls the Uterus Minor^ «/- dum fufpendem, [A] [A] Specific charafler of the MotacUla-Catidr'ts i « Above it is greenifti brown j below fulvous j a line upon and un^ der the eyes ; It is of the fize of the We cannot omit noticing three birds which our nomenclators have confounded with fie- eaters, but which are undoubtedly of a different kind. ' V a Thefe. 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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