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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Winchester (Eng.) Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Bris.m. 304. t. 16. 2. Id. 8vo. 1. 394. Le Coliou du Cap. de B. Esp. Buf. iv. 404. PL enl. 282. 1. Cape Coly, Gen. Syn. iii. 100. Shaws Zool. x. p. 2. pi. 1. SIZE of a Chaffinch ; length ten inches and a quarter, of whichthe tail is six inches and three quarters. Bill grey, with a dusky * The Flying Squirrel of America almost equals this bird, as far as may be called itsflight, from one tree to another, and in a similar manner ; for, by means of a broad mem-brane, extended between the fore and hind legs, this animal is rendered very buoyant in theair, and specifically lighter, so as to leap from bough to bough, at least thirty or forty feet,though it always sinks considerably before it can reach the place it aims at. f So far as he gives a distinction of Species, Linnaeus is right, but he describes someother bird by mistake, viz. cinereous, spotted with grey, beneath brown, marked withround white spots, a purple head, and a forked black tail. I cannot recollect such a bird. ri.i-sxxn.
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7////,- /■„,/<,/(</,/ COLY. 197 black tip; head and neck vinaceous ash-colour; back, rump, scapu-lars, and upper wing coverts, the same; upper tail coverts purplishchestnut ; breast vinaceous; from thence to vent, dirty white ; underwing coverts black ; tail ash-colour, greatly cuneiform in shape, theouter feathers not more than ten lines in length, and white on theouter web ; legs grey. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 2.—WHITE-BACKED COLY — Pl. lxxxvi. Colius leuconotus, Ind. Orn. i. 369. Dmid. ii. 362. erythropus, Gm. Lin. i. 842. Coliou a dos blanc, Levail. Afr. vi. p. 39. pl. 257. White-backed Coly, Gen. Syn. iii. 101. pl. 41. Shaics Zool. x. p. 6. LENGTH twelve inches. The upper mandible white at thebase, and black the rest of its length, the under wholly white;plumage in general bluish ash-colour; the head feathers greatlyelongated, and when they are elevated, they form an upright crest,which appears pointed; the under parts of the body, from the breast,dirty white

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