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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.


Page 137

" 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
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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
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