The architecture of birds / [Anon].

  • James Rennie
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The architecture of birds / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not spare room for an extended or critical account of the classifications in question, we must content our- selves with giving a few of these in outline. Willughby’s and Ray’s System. It would be doing injustice to our eminent countrymen Willughby and Ray, not to give pre- cedence to their arrangement, which in fact is the basis of most of those that followed. They make two grand divisions : I. LAND FOWL, are either such as have Crooked Beak and Talons, which are either Carnivorous and Rapacious, and these are either Diurnal, that prey in the day-time ; The Greater, and these are either The more generous, called Eagles : The more cowardly and sluggish, called Vul- tures. The Lesser, called in Latin Accipitres: The more generous, called Hawks : Long-winged, as the Falcon; Short winged, as the Goshawk. The more cowardly, and sluggish, and indocile : The Greater, as the Buzzard. The Lesser: European, as the Shrikes; Exotic, as the Birds of Paradise. Nocturnal, that fly and prey by night: Horned or eared, as the Horn Owl; Without horns, as the Brown Owl. Frugivorous, called by the general name of Parrots: Greatest kind, called Macaws ; Middle-sized Parrots and Popinjays; Least kind, Parrakeets. More Straight Bill and Claws, distinguishable into Greatest kind: Exotic birds of a singular nature, as the Ostrich, the Cassowary, the Dodo. Middle-sized, divisable into
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