THis Bird is about the bigness of a Magpie. It hath a Bill an inch long, the up∣per Chap whereof is a little hooked, the whole of a dark yellow: The Eyes Crystalline, with a dusky circle: The Neck two inches long, the body three. The Tail very long, viz. eight inches, consisting of eight streight feathers. The upper Legs are an inch and half long, as also the lower. The Toes in each foot four, standing as in Parrots, the two inward in each foot being shorter, the two outward longer. The whole Head is cloathed with feathers, which in their middles longways near the shaft are dusky, in their sides yellow, as is the Crest. The Neck and Wings (on the other side) have their feathers yellow in the middle, and dusky in the sides. The ends of the Wings are almost wholly dusky. The whole Belly, Back, excepting the Wings, upper Legs, and rise or base of the Wings to three inches and an half length, are covered with feathers of a pale yellow. The end of the Tail hath white feathers, the rest of the Tail is dusky. The lower Legs and Feet are of a * 1.1 Sea-water-colour. On the Head are long feathers erected like a Crest. It makes a great cry in the Woods.
The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...
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- The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...
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- Ray, John, 1627-1705.
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- 1678.
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"The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66534.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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§. IX. * Guira acangatara of the Brasilians, Marggrav.
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* 1.1
Sea-green we call it.