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Title: Illustrations of ornithology
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Jardine, William, 1800-1874 Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Mitford, R. C. W. (Reginald Colville William), b. 1839, ill Hewitt, Eleanor G., donor. DSI Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI Lenox Library, former owner. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Arsenic compounds
Publisher: Edinburgh : Published by W.H. Lizars London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and S. Highley Dublin : W. Curry Junr. & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ycr^t ■•/f//s/a> <^7v /■/ /AV SCOLOPAX SABINI, Vigors.Sabines Snipe. PLATE XXVII. S. corpore castaneo atroque vario, subtus pallidior; pileo, humeris, pteromatibusremigibusque atris, rostro pedibusque fuscis. Scolopax Sabini, Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 556. J_ his rare species of Scolopax was first described by Mr Vigors underits present title in the fourteenth volume of the Transactions of the Lin-nean Society. From the account there given, it appears, that the indivi-dual which furnished the materials for his description, and from which ourfigure is taken, was killed in Queens County, Ireland, in 1822. The sin-gularity of its plumage and appearance fortunately rescued it from de-struction, and being presented to Mr Vigors, it now enriches the collec-tion which he has so munificently presented to the Zoological Society ofLondon. A second specimen of a female has since been killed near Ro-chester, on the banks of the Medway, and is now preserved in the valuable

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