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Edwards, George, 1694-1773. / Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, etc
(1760)
Chap. LXVI. Pla. 276. The knot; Le canut, pp. 137-138 ff.
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" green: in walking and fearching for food it throws out its neck feven or eight inches." See the fmall figure in the plate, which is from Dr. Shaw's print, and co- loured from his description: he fays no- thing of the black on the head, but his print expreffes it frongly. Taylor White, Efq; fhewed me the drawing of a Bird agreeing very nearly with what Dr. Shaw has figured and described, having the top of the head black; which Bird, I think he told me, was fhot in Wales. It is probable, Dr. Shaw's and Dr. Ruffel's Birds may differ only in fex or age. It was unknown to us till introduced by Dr. Ruffel, A. D. I7S5. 137 )- II menues font vertes: en marchanf, et en cherchant a' manger, il elance le cou de fept a' huit pouces." Voyez la petite figure de la planche, qui efI Jaite fur l'empreinte de M. Shaw, et colore'e d'apres fa de/cription : il ne dit rien du noir qui eitJr la tete, mais il Pa fortemrent exprine' dans fa figure. M. Taylor Wlhite m'a fait voir le de/fein d'un Qifeae qui refimble beaucoup a' la figure et a' la dyfription de M. Shaw, ayant le Jommet de la tete noir, et qui avoit 'te' tue dans le pays de Gales, comme je crois qu'il me l'a dit. II efi probable que les Oifeaux de M. Ru/fl et de M. Shaw ne diftrent que par le fexe et par Page. Cet Oijiau nous etoit inconnu avant que M. Rufel l'eut produit en 1755. CHAP. LXVI. PLA. 276. The KNOT. H I S Bird is here reprefented of its natural bi(gnefs. The bill is pretty thick at its bafis, and tapering towards its point, which is not very flarp, but roundifh, and of a dufky a&h colour: the eyes are hazel-coloured: from the bill to the eye is drawn a dufky line, and above that a white line: the top of the head, hiknder part of the neck, the back, and winos, are of an afl colour, the feathers being a little lighter on their bor- dlers than in their middle parts :, the covert- feathers of the wings next above the quills are white at their tips and a little way up their borders, making a white line acrofs the wing: the quills next the back have I Le CA NUT. (CE T Oifeau efi reprefentJ ici de fa gro/7.iir Unaturelle. II a le bec d'An couleur de cendre obfcur, affez gros vers la baJe, et allant en diminuant 'vers le bout, qui n'efi pas fort pointu, mais un peu arrondi : fJs yeux fJnt couleur de noi- fette: il a une barre d'un brun obfcur depuis le bec jzeu'da [oeil, et une barre blanche au- dits! de celle- laI: le defis de la tete, le der- riere du cou, le dos, et les ailes font couleur de cendre, les plumnes en etantun peu plus claires ve'rs les bords qu'aue milieu: parmi les plumies qui couvvrcnt les ailes, celles de la premire rangie vers les pennes font blanches a' la poin- te, et un peu plus bas, fur les bords, ce qui fo]rmne une barre blanche d'un coie' a l'autre de I
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