Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals - selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the (14782021525)

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Title: Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals : selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy and W. Wood
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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ops ruficaudus Vieillot. Orn. Elem. p. 68. (1816.) Avery extraordinary and not inelegant little creature, havinga bill totally different from any other bird. Its general habitevinces a close connexion W\i\\ the SIttcv, particularly thoseof New Holland ; some of which iiave their bills (which areslender) slightly inclining upwards, thus forming a con-nexion between Xenops and the straight billed SittcB of theold world. The figure is of the male, and its natural size; the headdark brown with pale spots ; the back of a reddish tinge, andthe rump and tail rufous ; tail much rounded, and of twelvefeathers; the three outer and the two pair in the middleentirely rufous, the other pair having the inner shafts black;the greater quills black; the last having an internal bar ofpale fulvous. Beneath the eye a spot of white downyfeathers, with a dusky border above and below; there is alittle difference between this and Illigers bird, but it may beonly sexual. Inhabits Brazil, but-is rare. PI. 100,
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lot PAPILIO Evander. Generic Character.—See PI. 92. Specific Character. Fap. (Tro. dent.) Alls dentatis, nigris; posticis suprd maculis quinqueliolaceOChermesinis; anticis suhtils fascid alhidd, traiisiersd, me-dia. Godart. Pap. (Tro. dent.) Wings dentated, black; posterior above with afive-cleft, violet-crimson spot; anterior beneath with a trans-verse, central, whitish band. P. Evander. Godart, En. Meth. vol. ix. p. 32. no. 18. Both sexes of this newly described insect are here, for thefirst time, figured ; that above is of the male, and beneath isrepresented the under side of the female. The crimsonspots (which finely relieve the brownish velvet-like black onthe upper surface of the wings) are, in some lights, mostbeautifully glossed with changeable violet, and appear eitherdarker or paler according to the position in which the insectis viewed. Southern Brazil is, undoubtedly, more rich in this splendidfamily than the northern provinces of that vast country. Inever saw this speci