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
Scapha, Volute var Nobilis, Noble 4
Chinese Volute
Scorpio, Murex, var Minor; Least Stag’s 16
Horn Murex
Thersites, Papilio, Thersites Butterfly 24
Tricolor, Tanagra β, Tricoloured Tanager 23
Tros, Papilio, Tros’s Butterfly 29
Viridis, Trogon, Yellow-Bellied Green 2
Trogon or Curucui
Vulgaris, Malleus, Hound’s Tongue Hammer 28
Shell
Zacynthus, Papilio, Zacynthus’s 27 1
Butterfly
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THE BINDER
Is requested to observe that the Numbers have been transposed by
mistake upon the Three following Plates.
For Plate 27 _read_ 25.
Plate 25 _read_ 26.
Plate 26 _read_ 27.
And place the plates with their respective descriptions according to
this correction.
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[Illustration:
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_London. Published by E. Donovan as the Act
directs April, 1822._
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THE
NATURALIST’S REPOSITORY.
_&c. &c. &c._
CONCHOLOGY.
PLATE I.
FIGURE I.
CONUS AMMIRALIS var AMBOINENSIS.
THREE-BANDED AMBOYNA HIGH-SPIRED
ADMIRAL SHELL.
UNIVALVE.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Animal a limax. Shell univalve, convolute and turbinate. Aperture
effuse, longitudinal, linear, without teeth, entire at the base: pillar
smooth.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Shell with rough punctures at the base.
CONUS AMMIRALIS: testa basi punctato scabra.
CONUS AMMIRALIS: testa basi punctato. _Linn. Syst. Nat. 10 p. 714. n.
257._—_Mus. Lud. Ulr. 553. n. 157. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. 3378.
10._
CONUS AMMIRALIS _var_ AMBOINENSIS. α. Spire high and tapering; shell
pyriform, glossy, smooth, pale yellowish with two broad bands of
testaceous marked with large subsaggitate oval spots of white, and a
narrow band between composed of white spots and intermediate testaceous
dots.
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