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Identifier: histoirenaturell12buff_0 (find matches)
Title: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux
Year: 1780 (1780s)
Authors: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Paris, De l'imprimerie royale
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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fTent les deuxlatérales qui les fuivent immédiatementde trois pouces un quart; les plus exté-rieures de cinq pouces trois lignes, & \qsailes de preique toute leur longueur. XXL ^ LE TAIT-SOU. (d) Selon ma coutume , je conferveà cet oifeau ion nom fauvage qui eftordinairement le meilleur & le plus carac-tériftique. Le tait-fou 5 ainfi appelé à Mada:-gafcar Ion pays natal, a tout le plumagedun beau bleu, &: cette belle uniformitéeft encore relevée par des nuances très-éciatantes de violet & de vert qui réflé- •^ VojeT^les plançlies enluminées, n,^ 2 (j f> ou cet©îfeau efl: repré(enté jîg, 2 , fous le nom de Coucouhleii de Madagafcar» ; (d) Cuculus cœrukus ; remigiôus vfrîdi & vhlaceo ^redrkibus violaceo colon variomibm, . . . Coucou bleude Madagafcar , Brifon , tome IV^, pag, i 56. ~ Caium Yotundata, corpore camieo, Linnscus,Syfî> Nat\ éd. XIII, pag. 171 , Sp. 15. »— Ornithol haL Xoxxi. I, pag. 83 , 6p. 12, pL 7?, J^lUr. 2?aa i^û
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X-r,Jr/. des Oîfeaux étrang-ers. 5 i^ ôhiflent les pennes des ailes ^ & par desnuances de violet pur, fans la plus légèreteinte de vert, que refléchiflent les pennesde la queue ; enfin, la couleur noire despieds & du bec fait une petite ombre àce petit tableau. Longueur totale, dix-fept pouces;bec, feize lignes ; tarfe, deux pouces ;vol 5 près de vingt pouces ; queue, neufpouces , compoiée de dix pennes, dontles deux intermédiaires font un peu pluslongues que les latérales ; dépaffe les ailesde fix pouces. XXII. L E COUCOU INDICATEUR, (e) Cest dans rintérieur de lAfrique,à quelques diftances du cap de Bonne-efpérance, que le trouve cet oifeau,connu par fon finguiier inftincfi: din-diquer les nids des abeilles fauvages, (e) Cuculus indicatoY, M. le Docleur Sparman ;Hifiolre de ce coucou, envoyée à M. le DocleurForfler , pour être iaférée dans \ts TranfaétionsrhUoJophiques» Ci; ■^z Hijlolre Naturelle Le matin ôl le foir font les deux tempsde la journée

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  • bookid:histoirenaturell12buff_0
  • bookyear:1780
  • bookdecade:1780
  • bookcentury:1700
  • bookauthor:Buffon__Georges_Louis_Leclerc__comte_de__1707_1788
  • booksubject:Birds
  • bookpublisher:Paris__De_l_imprimerie_royale
  • bookcontributor:Harvard_University__Museum_of_Comparative_Zoology__Ernst_Mayr_Library
  • booksponsor:Harvard_University__Museum_of_Comparative_Zoology__Ernst_Mayr_Library
  • bookleafnumber:72
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