A natural history of birds - illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life (1731) (14563686258)

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Title: A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

Year: 1731 (1730s)

Authors: Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759 Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI

Subjects: Birds Birds

Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by William Innys in St. Paul's Church yard, John Clarke under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, and John Brindley at the King's Arms in New Bond-Street

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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erior Edges are of a reddifli yel-low, and in fome Birds white. The Tail is two Inches and a quarterlong, made up of twelve black Feathers, their exterior Edges the famewith the Quill-Feathers; the Legs and Feet black; its Stomach is notvery mufculous, out of which when diffedled was taken Beetles andother InfeEis. It commonly breeds in forfaken Coney Burrows. In Sujfex the Boys, to catch thefe Birds, ufe this Art; they dig longTurfs of Earth, and lay them acrofs the Holes whereout they were dig-ged, and about the middle of them hang Snares made of Horfe-hair.Thele Birds being naturally very timorous, if a Hawk happens to ap-pear, or but a Cloud pafs over and intercept the Sun-Beams, they haf-tily run to hide themfelves in the Holes, under the Turfs, and fo arecaught by the Neck in Snares. Upon the Downs in Sujfex they aretaken in great numbers in Harveft-time or beginning of Autumn, wherefor their Fatnefs and delicate Rclifh, they are highly prized. See theCocky Vol. the firfi The 54

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1731

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