. La storia naturale degli uccelli britannici, o UNA selezione degli uccelli più rari, belli e interessanti che abitano questo paese : le descrizioni del Systema naturae di Linnaeus : con osservazioni generali, originali o raccolte dagli ultimi e più stimati ornitologi inglesi : E abbelliti con figure, disegnate, incise, e colorate dagli esemplari originali. Nelle loro maniere, non affociate.They sono trovati durante il fring e fummer in numeri di zoppe nei thefens di Lincolnfhire. Le uova sono in numero di tre o quattro, di colore verde o oliva, farcite con blac
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. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . in their manners, do not affociate.They are found during fpring and fummer in vaft numbers in thefens of Lincolnfhire. The eggs are three or four in number, ofa greenifh or olive colour, fpotted with black, and have alfo a bandof the fame colour about the middle. Thefe eggs are depofitedamong the reeds in fens and other marfhy places. The food is in-fects and fmall fifh, which it procures by hovering over the water, and darting on its prey in the fame manner as moft other birds ofthe fame genus. It PLATE LXXIV. It is an inhabitant of mofl of the northern countries of Europe ;very common in Siberia, and about the fait lakes of the defarts ofTartary. It is alfo fuppofed to be the fpecies which was feen byKalm in vaft flocks, beyond lat. 41. north, long. 47. W. He fays, It was rather darker than the common fea-fwallow ; the flocksconfiited of fome hundreds, and fometimes fettled on the fhip#. * Vide Kalm, Travels in North America, &c. tranflated by J. R. Forfter, 1770* B , PLATE Is. PLATE LXXV. SCOLOPAX ^GOCEPHALA< G O D W I T G R A L L JE, Bill roundifh. Tongue entire, flefhy. Thighs naked. Toe?divided. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill flender, ftrait, weak. Noftrils linear, in a furrow. Tonguepointed, flender. Toes divided, or flightly connected; back toefmall. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNO NTMS. Above pale reddifh brown; a dark mark down the middle ofeach feather. Beneath white. Tail barred with brown. Scolopax ./EGOCEPHALAroftro recto, pedibus virefcentibus, capitecolloque rufefcentibus, remigibus tribus nigrisbafi albis. Linn. Syji. Nat. L p. 147. 77. I3eedit. 10. C Godwity PLATE L
