Copy 1, Volume 1

History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood / by Thomas Bewick.

  • Thomas Bewick
Date:
1847
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood / by Thomas Bewick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Head of the Merlin Hawk. 2 1.—The Cere, \cera, Linn.] the naked skin which covers the base of the bill, as in the Hawk kind. 2—The orbits, [orbita, Linn.] the skin which surrounds the eye. It is generally bare, but particularly in the Parrot and the Heron. Head of the Great Ash-coloured Shrike. 1— When the bill is notched near the tip, as in Shrikes, Thrushes, &c., it is called by Linnseus rostrum emarginatum. 2— >Vibrissce, (Linn.) are hairs that stand forward like feel- ers : in some birds they are slender, as in Flycatchers, &c., and point both upwards and downwards, from both the up- per and under sides of the mouth. 3— Capistrum—a word used by Linnseus to express the short feathers on the forehead, just above the bill. In some birds these feathers fall forward over the nostrils: they quite cover those of the Crow. Rostrum cultratum, (Linn.) when the edges of the bill are very sharp, as in that of the Crow.