The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5): or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc. — John Shaqi
The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5): or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc.Donovan, E. (Edward)
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The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5): or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc.
Donovan, E. (Edward)
Zoology -- Pictorial works
PAPILIO AGAVE: alis integerrimis rotundatis flavis: anticis apice supra
nigris, subtus brunneis.—_Fabr. Ent. Syst. t. 3. p. 1. 193. n.
599._
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This very scarce and pretty species of the Papilio tribe is an
inhabitant of Cayenne, and may possibly occur also in other parts of
South America. It was unknown to Fabricius when he published the work
entitled _Species Insectorum_; he afterwards observed a species of it in
the cabinet of Von Rohr, and inserted a description of it between the
two species P. Hecabe and P. Cardamines in his subsequent production
_Entomologia Systematica_.
The upper surface of this Butterfly is entirely yellow, without any
marks, excepting only the apex of the anterior wings, which are black in
that portion of the tip which appears red on the lower surface, or as
Fabricius terms it, somewhat erroneously brown.
This fly, so uniformly simple in the aspect of its superior surface,
appears to peculiar advantage when in a resting position as it is
depicted in the lower part of the plate.
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[Illustration:
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_London. Published as the Act Directs, by E.
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ORNITHOLOGY.
PLATE VII.
EMBERIZA CIRIS
PAINTED BUNTING.
ORDER
PASSERES.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Bill conic: mandibles receding from each other from the base downwards,
the lower with the sides narrowed in; a hard knob within the upper
mandible.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Head blue, abdomen fulvous, back green, feathers green brown.
EMBERIZA CIRIS: capite cæruleo, abdomine fulvo, dorso-viridi, pennis
viridi-fuscis _Act. Stockh. 1750 p. 278 t. 7. f. 1._—_Linn.
Syst. Nat. 1. 179._—_Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 885._
Friagilla Tricolor, _Catesby Car. 1. p. 44. t. 44_. _Klein. Av. p. 97.
7._
Chloris ludoviciana, Papa, _Briss. 3. p. 200. 58. t. 8. f. 3_.
Fringilla Mariposa, _Scop. Ann. 1. No. 222_.
Le Pepe _Buff. 4. p. 176. t. 9_.—_Pl. Enl. 139. f. 1._
China Bulfinch, _Albin. 3. t. 68_.
PAINTED BUNTING, _Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. p. 206. 54_.—_Supp. p. 159. Ind.
Orn. T. 1. p. 416. 61._
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