Identifier: museileverianiex121792shaw (find matches)
Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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725. IN Otidum genere fmgularis omnino et rariffima eft Ipecies qus in tabulacerniturj et ab aliis omnibus torque maximo pennarum longiffimarum fu-per collum prope humeros difpofitarum, et utrinque ad pedus dependentiumdiftinguitur, quern erigere poteft feu deprimere ad libitum. Conftat torquis eplumis diverfe coloratis: pennse fcilicet quje in collo poftico maxima ex partenigrant, qu;e vero utrinque dependent, albse. Caput ( 214 ) Caput crifla alba (kpendula decoratur. Collum cinereum, ftriis tranfverfis ni-o-ris undulatum. Color generalis pennarum in corpore fuperiori pallet leviffimefufco-flavefcens feu gilvus, punftulis maculifque fufcis creberrime guttatus. Re-mioes primores nigri maculam habent prope medium albam. Cauda modicapallet, fyfco confperfa, fafciifque tranfverfis fufco-nigricantibus virgata. Pecflus etabdomen fere albent. Crura longa fufco-flavefcunt. Magnitudine fuperat Otis Houbara gallum vulgarem gallinaceum. In Ara-bice defertis prxcipue. invenitur, TH E « «»•
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,v,,v,y,.^,// /.J^.iUclUui/i, OTIS HOUTBAIRA, THE JlilTJFF» BUSTAmUo , .„/,.». P,^My/,>/% t/u ^ct^.Uirct^ y/ Z. 17^3 /i / 7., //,y,;« Z^~.:;a., J/J./V ( 215 ): THE RUFFED BUSTARD. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill a little convex. Nostrils open, oblong. Tongue floping on each fide near the end, and pointed. Legs long, and naked above the knees. Toes only three; no back toe. Pennant. SPECIFIC CM A R A C T E R, &c. Yellowifh Buftard, fpotted with brown, with very long rufF-like neck-fea-thers ; the longer remiges marked by a patch of white. Ruffed Buftard. Lath. 2. p. 805.Le Houbara, ou petite Outarde huppce dAfrique. Buff. ois. 2. p. 59. AMONGST the birds of the genus Otis the moft fingular, as well asperhaps the rareft, is the fpecies reprefented on the prclent plate, whichis diftinguillicd from every other kind by a very large ruff of greatly leno-th-ened feathers furrounding the lower part of the neck, and hanging down oneach fide the breaft. This ruff can at pleafure be elevated

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