Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina (1792) (14747534424)

The Boat Bill, Cancroma cochlearia, now Cochlearius cochlearius

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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71.Cancroma Cochlearia. Lin. Cancroma Cancrophaga ? Lin. Cochkarius, hrifSi 5. j>. 506. I. SINGULARIS huic avi roftri formatio, quod forfan latius pro longitu-dlne quam alii alicui adhuc cognits; mandibula fuperiore carinata, feu inprominentiam longitudinalem du6ta, cymb^ inverfse non longe abfimilem. Co-lor primarius plumbeo-csruleus, pedore pallidore, abdomine fufco-ferrugineo,magis minufve in diverfis fpeeiminibus faturato. Rollrum fufcum. Frons al-bet. Caput crifta nigra, longa, dependula decoratur. Ate caudaque brevia.Crura valida fufco-flavefcunt. C c 2 Varietas ( 188 ) Varictas interdum confplcicur, quam quafi fpeciem diftindam defcripferuntnonmilii phyfici, licet fortafle difFerat tantum coloribus, aut fexu, aut cetatemagis minufve proveda. H^c corpus fuperius fufco-ferruginea eft, inferiusalbida: ad cjetera priori fimilis. Americam Auftralem incolit Cancroma Cochlearia, locaque aquofa frequentat,vifUtans more ardearum, ranis, pifcibus, reliquilqu-e id genus animalibus. THE

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.//..y/y^y Mf IANCKOMA COCH I, EAKIA. THJB BOAT BM..!., THE BOAT-BILL. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill broad, fiat, with a keel along the middle, like a boat reverred.Nostrils fmall, lodged in a furrow.To2S divided. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. Cinereous Boat-Bill with the abdomen rufous, (fometiines white,) top of diehead and crefcent on the neck black. Boat-Bill. Lath. Synops. 5. />. 26. /. 76,Boat-BilL Brown illufi. p. 92. /, 36.Le Savacou. Buff. 7. p. 443. /. aj- THE formation of the beak in this bird is ftrikingly fingular, and is per-haps broader in proportion to its length than in any other known bird;the upper mandible is carinated, or furnifhed with a rifing longitudinal pro-minence, which gives it an appearance not ill refembling an inverted boat.The general colour of this fpecies is a dull blueifh, or lead-colour; paler oathe breaft; the abdomen being of a ferruginous brown, more or lefs deep in•different Ipecimens. The bill is duiky: the forehead white: the head furnifhed ( 19

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