This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...fact sufficiently vouched for by the natural ease of the att, tude, and the correctness of the details; and yet, strange to say, there is not one word inserted in the text relative to its habits, &c, something of which might have been procured from the accomplished naturalist, who had drawn it on the spot from a living ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...fact sufficiently vouched for by the natural ease of the att, tude, and the correctness of the details; and yet, strange to say, there is not one word inserted in the text relative to its habits, &c, something of which might have been procured from the accomplished naturalist, who had drawn it on the spot from a living specimen. N trymen, stationed at that settlement, to the existence of a bird in the neighbouring tracts, which would be the most valuable addition that any menagerie or museum in Europe, could receive. In general size, structure, and proportions, this magnificent bird resembles the common species: the head and neck are equally naked and carunculated, but there does not appear any tuft of hairy feathers on the middle of the neck. The feathers of the lower part of the neck, the interscapulars, the scapulars, and of the under plumage, are of a rich green bronze, with a line of black, and another of copper green, at the edge of each. This colouring becomes more brilliant towards the rump, where the bronzed green changes to a fine sapphire blue, but in some lights to an emerald green; the bronzed border gradually becoming broader: these parts also reflect a brilliant copper red, rendered more striking by a velvet-black line, which divides it from the green and blue tints. The upper tail covers and the tail itself have an ocellated spot, partly blue and green, surrounded by a black circle, and edged on the side of the tip with a broad band of golden copper: there are about four ranges of these ocellated spots, separated by a grey space marked by dusky brown lines. The flank feathers are like those of the rump, but they are of a deeper green, and the golden line is more rufous: the lesser wing covers are emerald green, with a narrow velvet-black ...
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