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Identifier: ornithologicalmi03rowl (find matches)
Title: Ornithological miscellany
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Rowley, George Dawson, 1822-1878 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Walther, T., lithographer Allen, Edgar W., lithographer Smith, J., lithographer Erxleben, J., lithographer Hanhart, Michael, printer of plates Hanhart, N, printer of plates Chase, Robert William, former owner. DSI Mackintosh, Duncan Robert, former owner. DSI Mintern Bros., printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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K VT: p-1 CD E-iOW a: >: ON THE GENUS CITTURA. 133 CiTTURA CYANOTIS. This species belongs to that four-armed island, Celebes, with itssuggestive form and triple gulf, and particularly to the northern part of it,Minahassa (which Mr. Wallace calls a sweet native name )*. He describesit as quite a garden, full of fine coffee-plantations and rice-fields, with capitalroads. In the Malay Archipelago, vol. i. p. 387, is a map of Minahassa,with Menado (the chief town) and the lake Tondano, near which Cittitracyanotis occurs. Dr. Meyer sends me the following notes as descriptions of thesewoodcuts:— ^, The first is a view of Manadof, the chief town (if it can be called atown) of the Minahassa, on the bay of Manado and on a part of themountains of the country—the part through which one generally entersthe bovenlanden (i.e. the highlands). The view is taken from alittle to the north of Manado, and it looks to the south. The more markedhouses or streets are not to be distinguished, they bei

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