. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. !i!' C 349 ] .i (w â¢I The M A N C H O T WITH A TRUNCATED BILL. FOURTH SPECIES, u Jptenoifytes CatarraHes. Gmel. Phaeton Demer/us. Linn. Catarraaes. BriiT. ' yi*/ Rid-^ooted Penguin. Edw. and Lath. j 'Tp H E bill of the Manchots ufually terminates â¢^ in a point. In this fpecies the extremity of the lower mandible is truncated. This cha-. radler feemed fufficient to BrifTon for conftitut-^ ing a diflinft genus under the denomination of gorfou, of which he was complete
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. !i!' C 349 ] .i (w â¢I The M A N C H O T WITH A TRUNCATED BILL. FOURTH SPECIES, u Jptenoifytes CatarraHes. Gmel. Phaeton Demer/us. Linn. Catarraaes. BriiT. ' yi*/ Rid-^ooted Penguin. Edw. and Lath. j 'Tp H E bill of the Manchots ufually terminates â¢^ in a point. In this fpecies the extremity of the lower mandible is truncated. This cha-. radler feemed fufficient to BrifTon for conftitut-^ ing a diflinft genus under the denomination of gorfou, of which he was completely mafter acr. cording to the hypothetical and fyflematical or- der of his divifions: but it was not a matter equally arbitrary to apply to the fame Manchot the name of CatarraSles or CatarraSta, by which Ariftotle denoted an aquatic bird of prey*,which was certainly not a Manchot, with which Arifr totle muft have been totally unacquainted. However, Edwards, to whom we owe our knowledge of this fpecies, applies to it this paf- iagc of Sir Thomas Roe, in his voyage to In- dia : ** On the ifle of Penguins (at the Cape of i ii â â '.mm. * lib. ix. 12. f* Good il. 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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