A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt.

Lemonnier, Céran

Date:: 1839

Credit: A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$SOBQKRUfl Ar\. Miirrair Tail displayed and long ; cheeks without feathers. [Ame- rica.] Subgenus Paroquet. Tail long; cheeks feathered; a naked space around the eye. Subgenus Cockatoo. Tail short, equal or squared; cheeks feathered; a movable crest, Subgenus Paroquet Proper. Tail equally cuneiform; no crest. Subgenus Trumpet Paroquet. Tail short and square; a crest; cheeks denuded; upper beak enormous. ORDER IV. GALLINACE^E. Upper mandible arched; nostrils pierced in a large mem- branous space at the base of the beak, and covered by a car- tilaginous scale; a heavy carriage ; short wings ; the bony sternum diminished by two emarginations so wide and deep that they occupy nearly the whole sides; fourchette articu- lated by a simple ligament; flight feeble; anterior toes united at base by a short membrane, and indented throughout. The Pigeons and another genus are the only kind which have not this membrane; their usual food is grain; crop extremely large, and gizzard vigorous. Genus Pavo, Lin. Peacock. An aigrette or crest on the head; beak naked at its base ; the coverts of the tail of the males more elongated than the quills, and capable of being erected so as to form a wheel. The domestic Peacock is a native of India, and was brought thence by Alexander. Genus Alector, Merr. Hocco. Beak robust, with the upper mandible the longest, bent, and surrounded with a skin where the nostrils are pierced ; head crested ; no spur.$

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