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A916 Beagle Library: Proctor, Robert. 1825. Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes. London: A. Constable. Text

, while the almost intolerable heat of the sun, and the slow pace of the horses, in consequence of the deepness of the sand, rendered the journey doubly wearisome. I passed this afternoon over several small hills of different bright hues, for which I could account no better than by supposing the colours to arise from metallic substances mixed with the sand: pink, blue, and green, were particularly vivid. I thought of collecting a small quantity of each, but I found, on separating it from the main body

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A916 Beagle Library: Proctor, Robert. 1825. Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes. London: A. Constable. Text

tile valley, cotton, sugar, rice, and lard, together with coarse blue cloth, manufactured in the neighbourhood, and generally worn by the Indians. Considerable quantities of gold and silver, of which it has very good mines in the Cordillera at a short distance, are also sent from Truxillo. The returns are chiefly in British manufactures, which generally bear a price of twenty-five per cent higher than in the capital. However the consumption is not great, and one good warehouse is sufficient to

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A916 Beagle Library: Proctor, Robert. 1825. Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes. London: A. Constable. Text

curling. After many opportunities of seeing him, I may say that I never met with a face which gave a more exact idea of the man. Boldness, enterprise, activity, intrigue, proud impatience, and a persevering and determined spirit, are plainly marked upon his countenance, and expressed by every motion of his body. His dress on this occasion was plain though military. He wore as usual a blue coat and pantaloons, with boots reaching above the knee. He seemed to pay much attention to the performance

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A916 Beagle Library: Proctor, Robert. 1825. Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes. London: A. Constable. Text

performers entered in procession. First came Espinosa, the matador on foot, dressed in a light blue satin jacket and breeches, and a Spanish mantle of scarlet satin: as he passed the president's box, he made a low reverence to the Colombian hero attended by his staff. After the matador followed the two picadores on horseback, dressed in brown stuff with immense jack-boots on their legs, and armed with small spears of the size of handspikes. Next marched the four capeadores a cavallo, cloakmen on

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A916 Beagle Library: Proctor, Robert. 1825. Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes. London: A. Constable. Text

the Sierra is confined principally to maize, wheat, barley, and potatoes. This latter vegetable grows to the greatest perfection in the Sierra, of which recent inquiries have shown it to be a native. There are three kinds of it in Peru: the first is a bright yellow, the second blue, and the third white; and all three are of the size and shape of what we call champions, and are the best I have ever eaten, though the yellow is perhaps to be preferred. Most of the little plats of ground

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A826 Beagle Library: Scrope, George Julius Poulett. 1825. Considerations on volcanos: the probable causes of their phenomena, the laws which determine their march, the disposition of their products, and their connexion with the present state and past history of the globe. Leading to the establishment of a new theory of the earth. London: W. Phillips. Text PDF

stains it with stripes of different shades of brown, yellow, red, green and blue. The silex alone remains untouched, and when all, or a large proportion, of the other ingredients have been washed away, the lava appears occasionally changed into a light, harsh, carious, and highly siliceous rock, bearing no resemblance whatever to its original character. Where the exhalation of vapours strongly impregnated with this acid have continued for a great length of time, the change thus effected in the

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

of the bird, is acute, the colour is green when obtuse, blue. The colour of the head being a very deep blue, is not affected by any change of position. Prince Maximillian, in his Travels in the Brazils, says, that in the procnia cyantropus held against the light, the body seems wholly a splendid sky-blue, if turned from it, then it appears a shining light-green. Notwithstanding that the doctrine of colours appears thus easily deducible, there remain many circumstances extremely difficult to be

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

duced a port wine or beet red colour, and the thermometer rose to 43 .75. These experiments were repeated three times. In the second series, the thermometer from emerald green to blue fell from 41 to 40 ; in the dark green, from alkali, the thermometer stood permanent at 42 .5. In the third series, water was 41 ; and the instrument, in the transition from green to blue, fell from 41 .75 to 41 .5; with alkali, it rose to 42 .25 (dark green), and with a drop of acid, producing a dark purplish

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

and yellow and red in the latter: black, the added temperatures of blue, yellow, and red. The artist can make black by mixing together Antwerp blue, gamboge, and carmine. We know that the finest black cloth is first dyed blue: and Dr. Bancroft informs us, that the superior blacks of the once famous Gobelins of France, were produced by passing the cloth through woad, weld, and madder, or blue, yellow, and red. By a delicate thermometer, the artist and manufacturer may hereafter attain a

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

dolphin increase remarkably in brilliancy and beauty, and with accumulating power to the terminal line of life. The colour of the iris in the eye may resolve itself into a different question, but it is certainly connected with some characteristic feature of this strange microcosm. The fine blue eye, for instance, of the sprightly gazelle, introduced with such simple and beautiful pathos by. Moore in his Lalla Rookh: I never loved a dear gazelle, To glad me with its dark blue eye, But when it

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A559.2 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

brilliancy and durability of colours, in variety and elegance of patterns, some may vie with many of oar best European works of art. The dress of the men consists generally of a shirt of this blue bayeta, open at the collar, a pair of white cotton drawers or trowsers that come half way down the legs, and over them a pair of breeches made of blue bayeta, fastened round the waist by a long woven sash of variously coloured worsted, into which their knife is stuck on one side. Their breeches are

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

as when powdered fluate of lime is thrown on a heated plate, or projected on a surface of hot oil of olives. The chlorophane, even by the heat of the hand, yields a fine green light. Dr. Brewster has given us an interesting paper on the Phosphorescence of Minerals by Heat.* Thus, the petalite is blue and very bright the green telesie is also blue and pretty bright compact fluor is a fine green phosphate of lime is yellow arragonite and harmotome, reddish yellow rubelite, scarlet. Tungstate of

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

reply, that it could scarcely be expected that a prism could undo that which itself had formed. Dr. Wollaston reduces the seven colours into four. This philosopher, by receiving a narrow line of light on a prism, had only presented to him four colours; namely, red, green, blue, and violet; a very narrow line of yellow was visible at the termination of the red and green, which Dr. Wollaston attributed to the overlaying of the edges of the red and green rays. But surely, prima facie, an

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

posed connected with the chemical action superinduced, was always suffered to subside while the ambient air was 79 , the petals of the white lily exhibited the same temperature the air being 77 , the blue tradescantia was 79 ; while the air was 76 , the central yellow base, or tongue of the gum cistus, was 79 ; and the air being 81 , the scarlet geranium was 87 . It was interesting to note the various changes which supervened, while I on one occasion made my experiments on the red flower of

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

remarkable coincidence the blue, purple, and scarlet, the two limiting powers of the spectrum, mingling centrally into one. This seems unquestionably to symbolize the bow in the cloud, which appeared on the recession of the diluvial waters; emblem of the divine beneficence to man Like the bow, Called out of rain-clouds, hue by hue Saw the grand gradual picture grow, The covenant with humankind Which God hath made. * The very covering of the sacred ornaments bears the same relation: Goats'

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A764 Beagle Library: Daubeny, Charles. 1826. A description of active and extinct volcanos. London: W. Phillips. Text

PUZZOLANA OF NAPLES 171 Grotto del Cane 173 Lake Avernus 174 Phlegrean Fields 175 Their condition in the time of Homer 178 ISLANDS OF PROCIDA AND ISCHIA 179 LIPARI ISLANDS. Stromboli 183 Its Dykes 185 Volcano 191 Products of the Volcanic action going on in its Crater 192 Vulcanello 193 Lipari 187 SICILY. Blue Clay or Marl formation 194 Macaluba 196 Lago Naftia 199 Antediluvial Volcanic Rocks. In the Val di Noto 201 At the foot of Etna 202 Postdiluvial Volcanic Rocks. Lavas of Mount Etna 203

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CUL-DAR5.A24-A27 Note: 1826 Dr Duncan's Mat[eria] Medica Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 1 [24] (1 1826 Dr. Duncan's Mat. Medica. Aconitum Napellus Aconiti folia. Aconitum Polyandi Trygi [Polyandria Trigynia]. Ranunculaceae Ju [Jussieu] Common blue monk's-hood or Wolfs Bane 4 herba. Acts on the [sensibility] narcotic, use in Sciatica Venereal nodes. Dose from gr. j to v. — Grown with Decided success in one case by Dr. Duncan, but a relapse not uncommonly occurs. Hellelor

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

height of fifteen feet, and is terminated by a thyrse-like cone of divergent spikes, which are closely beset with large beautiful blue flowers, about which numerous humming birds are seen fluttering from flower to flower, sucking the nectariferous juices there secreted. Here is also the pourretia coarctata, furnished with a large cone of rich yellow flowers, upon a stalk which often rises to the height of twenty feet; this plant, however, is more common nearer the coast, the blue variety being

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A559.2 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

the neighbourhood; they consist of various vegetable substances, flowers, and roots; and it is surprising to see the various as well as the brilliant and permanent colors they produce with no other assistant than a copper saucepan set over a few embers in the open air. The principal material used for the dress of both males and females, is a kind of loose unfulled and undressed woollen cloth which they call bayeta: it is either white or blue; for men more especially the latter. These cloths

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A559.2 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

loose cotton shift and petticoat of blue bayeta slung from their shoulders usually constitutes the whole of their dress. Their bosoms are uncovered, and these in most of the married women have a disgusting appearance: from their sedentary habits and want of cleanliness, the breasts become relaxed and hang down over the tops of their petticoats: when they move abroad, or at home in cold weather, or before foreigners, they usually throw over their shoulders a rebosa, a three-cornered shawl of

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A764 Beagle Library: Daubeny, Charles. 1826. A description of active and extinct volcanos. London: W. Phillips. Text

various sizes, some larger than a filbert, their colour generally of an azure green, passing by various gradations into a dark blue, and their texture granular. The lava has also disseminated over it another substance, in a still larger proportion. It is blackish, opaque, or translucent only in very thin pieces, with a bright lustre, a vitreous aspect, and a fracture generally conchoidal, but sometimes lamellar. It generally appears on the lava in the form of irregular spots, or else has the

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A764 Beagle Library: Daubeny, Charles. 1826. A description of active and extinct volcanos. London: W. Phillips. Text

SICILY. blance may subsist between the volcanic ph nomena of that island and those of Naples.* Nearly all the central portion of Sicily is occupied by a vast deposit of blue clay or marl, in which are contained numerous and thick beds of selenite and gypsum, of common salt, of sulphur, of combinations of that mineral with iron and copper, and of the sulphuric acid with most of the earthy bases. The crystals of sulphate of strontian found in the sulphur mines are unrivalled for their beauty

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A545.1 Book: Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

evident that the want of people in this barren spot arises solely from the want of provisions, and that, if each man had four wives, the number of people could not be permanently increased by it. In Arabia Felix, according to Bruce, where every sort of provision is exceedingly cheap, where the fruits of the ground, the general food of man, are produced spontaneously, the support of a number of wives costs no more than that of so many slaves or servants. Their food is the same, and a blue

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

waist; his address was pleasing, his countenance expressed gaiety and good humour, his carriage was graceful, he was dressed in a small blue jacket, with a double row of round gilt buttons, and a little narrow brimmed black hat; his scarlet fringed poncho doubled, was tied round him like a petticoat, by his long green sash, which folded round his waist; he had white calico trowsers with a deep fringe at the bottom, but he had neither stockings nor shoes: mounted on horseback, he was a subject

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

a prism, it unfolds a very beautiful and interesting spectacle seven colours are presented, and the bow of promise in the storm affords a magnificent illustration of its phenomena. The colours thus unveiled are violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red, and they are refrangible in this order, the violet being the most easily refracted or bent, and the red with difficulty refracted. Agreeable to the doctrine of chromatics, taught us by Sir Isaac Newton, when all these colours are

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

additional evidence of this beautiful mockery of vision, as in the alcedo cristata, several of the species of trochilus, or humming bird, c.; add to these the change of tint in the indigo bird, described in Mr. Wilson's American Ornithology.* It appears at one time of a rich sky-blue at another of a vivid verdigris green so that the same bird, in passing from one place to another before your eyes, seems to undergo a total change of colour. When the angle of incidence, in the rays of light reflected

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

equal portions of nitrate of iron in solution and tincture of galls, I had 9 Fahrenheit above the ambient air, and 8 above the average temperature. In blue, from nitrate of iron and ferrocyanate of ammonia, the increment was 1 .5 above the air; in the chromate of lead, a brilliant yellow, produced from acetate of lead and chromate of potassa in solution, the acquired temperature was 2 .5; while that produced in the dazzling red of the hydriodate of mercury was 7 .5 the change of density, it was

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

the pattern showed in the mount. It was the interesting pledge, that cold and heat, summer and winter, were not henceforth to cease; and are not the temperatures of the blue and red admirable symbols of the difference of temperature in summer and in winter? These preliminaries, on the question of light generally, cannot be inapposite to the consideration of it as connected with the animal system, in which it seems so strange and peculiar a feature and it is perhaps partly from considering light

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

, however, there are two luminous spots beneath the elytra, only visible, of course, when it is on wing, and they are elevated; it then appears studded with four rich and vivid gems of a golden, blue lustre. In fact, the whole body seems a flood of pure light. In the West Indies, particularly St. Domingo, the natives employ these living fires to give light in managing their household concerns. In travelling, they are wont to attach one to each toe; and it is stated that in fishing and hunting they

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

I transferred a spherule into oil of olives in a small glass capsule, and viewed it under the lens of the microscope; it was opaque, of a bean shape and indented, slightly chromatic at the ends when illuminated by the reflector from below, being at one end fringed with blue, and at the other reddish yellow the matter being itself yellow, and environed by minute air bells. The luminous matter being divided by a lancet, previously gilt with etherized gold, to prevent oxydation, in order to

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

turkey is irritated, and struts about in all the mimic pomp and pantomime of offended pride, the caruncle of the forehead relaxes, and this, with the naked parts of the head and neck, mount up from blue to an intense red. Lord Byron has finely described the glow of youth and beauty, as affected by the passions of the soul: Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting at times to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightning. Tasso, too, admirably describes the contest of the rose

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

advanced age, was so affected with horror, on hearing that her daughter, with two children in her arms, had precipitated herself out of a window, and was killed on the spot, that her skin, in a single night, from head to foot, became as black as a negro. This remarkable change continued permanent. In that remarkable phenomenon, proceeding from a cardaic disorganization, wherein black and red blood intermingle, the skin, in consequence of a partial and incomplete circulation, is an intense blue

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A752 Beagle Library: Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray. Text

: another of the same genus, extremely beautiful, which we named Columba Byronensis. We also saw a fine duck, a species of scolopar; a blue and white heron; a hawk; a king-fisher peculiar, and called by us Alcedo Mautiensis; a starling, and some tarn and petrels. We were unable to procure any insects, but saw some very beautiful varieties of butterfly, and flying-bugs and beetles. Our time on shore was so limited that we could only observe such plants as grew on our road, such as coco, pandanus

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A782 Beagle Library: Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London: John Murray. Text

place. Of late years, a few of the principal people have been buried in coffins, but generally the dead are called for by a hack hearse, in which there is a fixed coffin, into which they are put, when away the man gallops with the corpse, and leaves it in the vestibule of the Recolata. There is a small vehicle for children, which I really thought was a mountebank's cart; it was a light open tray, on wheels painted white, with light blue silk curtains, and driven at a gallop by a lad dressed in

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A782 Beagle Library: Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London: John Murray. Text

town. Several of the principal houses have glass in the window-sashes, but the greatest number have not. The houses are almost all little shops, and the goods displayed are principally English cottons. The inhabitants are apparently a very quiet, respectable set of people. The Governor, who is an old man, has the manners and the appearance of a gentleman: he has a large family of daughters, who are pleasing-looking girls. The men are dressed in blue or white jackets, without skirts. The women are

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A782 Beagle Library: Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London: John Murray. Text

falling, add to the danger and to the grandeur of the scene. As we were passing we saw a guanaco on the very highest summit of one of the mountains. He was there evidently for safety; and as he stood against the blue sky, his attitude, as he earnestly watched us, was very expressive of his wild free life; and his small head and thin neck denoted the speed with which he was about to save himself. I had ridden on by myself about fifteen miles, and had gained, by a constant ascent, the summit of the

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A782 Beagle Library: Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London: John Murray. Text

ing over the food before them. The peons, with their dark brown faces, and different coloured caps, handkerchiefs, and ponchos, were loading the carga mules. Some of the party were putting on their spurs; others were arranging their toilette. The light was now faintly dawning on the tops of the highest mountains, and the snow was just discovered lying in large patches and ridges. The bottoms of the ravines were in dark shade, and white windy clouds were flying across the deep blue sky for some

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A782 Beagle Library: Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London: John Murray. Text

, and without speaking he galloped by me. He was dressed in his judicial robes; that is, he had on a coarse blue jacket, with scarlet cuffs and collar, and [page] 23

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A545.1 Book: Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

their subsistence. Then whole industry is limited to a supply of their immediate wants; and to procure a little bread, a few onions, a blue shirt, and. a bit of woollen, much labour is not necessary. The peasant lives therefore in distress; but at least he does not enrich his tyrants, and the avarice of despotism is its own punishment. * This picture, which is drawn by Volney, in describing the state of the peasants in Syria, seems to be confirmed by all other travellers in these countries; and

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

this was Sunday; but from all I could see, and all I could learn, there was no sort of regular employment; I could not make out from them how they contrived to live. During by far the greatest part of the day the women were basking in the sun, and conferring on each other the mutual favour (for it is their great delight) of picking the vermin from their hair. They were shamefully dirty. Their dress (and the dress of all the women in the country is much the same) consisted of a dark blue coarse

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

hanging to the neck of the madrina, or mare which leads the troop. The saddle, and several coarse cloths, with a sheepskin died blue, extended [page] 5

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

me as remarkable; as it sunk towards the horizon, long blue rays shot upwards, diverging in all directions, as from its centre, and reaching an altitude of thirty degrees. It now grew dark, and the road became worse. From the manner in which the body of the coach was hung, the severe jerks, which occurred continually, exceedingly distressed my wife, and made us long for our arrival at the next post, which we reached at seven o'clock. The thermometer at two p.m. was 64 . La Reduccion is a large

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

in an instant they were in the ruts again. We saw immense numbers of catitas, a beautiful species of green parrots not much larger than a thrush; they have white heads and blue wings, are easily domesticated and soon learn to talk: they burrow in the steep banks of the river. The face of the country, undulated, forms low hills and broad valleys; luxuriant bushes grow out from the perpendicular banks of the river, which, seen in its various windings, is very beautiful. The thermometer at ten

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

such a cottage at home, where these things are common. We examined their ponchos, one of which, with a blue ground and coloured figures, was very beautiful. The prices were from ten to fifty dollars; I should have purchased one, but the drains upon my purse had been so much heavier than I expected, that I feared it would hardly hold out till our arrival at Mendoza; and there were no means of replenishing it until we reached that place. In the yard some men were making charqui; it is thus prepared

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A559.1 Beagle Library: Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 1. Text Image PDF

racter as we see in him an admirable picture of a puntano; he was now dressed in his usual manner, in a shabby ragged pair of blue pantaloons, a tattered short brown jacket, with his shirt sleeves peeping out of both elbows, and an old shivered beaver hat that had lost its crown; round his waist was girded a tremendously long sword, having a silver hilt and a silver-mounted seabbard; the slow movement of his gait, his upright unbending, figure, the authoritative tone of command assumed towards

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handed from one to the other. A cotton shirt or two, a jacket and short trowsers of coarse blue flannel, constitute the whole of his wardrobe: his wife and children live huddled together, more like pigs than civilized human beings, and yet this misery is common amidst the utmost abundance that man could desire. Around the miserable hovel is a fine vineyard, abundance of trees which produce olives, figs, peaches, apples, c. in great profusion, and delightful pastures of rich lucern grass. His land

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slates. The serpentines are extremely various in their colours light-green, dark-green, apple, and pea-green green of all shades. Singular, indeed, is the succession of immense rocky barriers, perfectly destitute of vegetation. I was assured by the muleteer who accompanied me, that in the still more southern pass is a mountain of bright azure blue, probably a serpentine. This class of rocks lies eastward of the slates. I observed also several formations of steatite, enclosing veins of asbestos

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then proceed on an inclined plain, covered with thorny trees and bushes, and enter a ravine, which at the beginning is broad, but which gradually becomes narrower as we advance; the ascent now becomes much more perceptible. Here are many beautiful creepers; among them, the eccremocarpus scaber, and a delicate variety of trop olum of quite a novel character, with petals of azure blue, variegated with white; its root like three other unique varieties of trop olum is tuberous. Upon this ascent we

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people differ but little from the others, except in their caps, which are mostly conical, of blue woollen cloth, somewhat resembling those of the Greeks, but their heads are more covered, and their caps are longer. The Indians, if they may be so called, still possess many little settlements in the province, or rather I should say their descendants retain little farms that have never been appropriated or given away by the king of Spain; they, however, are but small, and thinly peopled: they are at

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manage their horses with admirable dexterity. They are dexterous in mounting; placing the face to the saddle, a man will lay hold of their heels and lift them up, when they make a sudden turn into the chair; the foot board is then adjusted, and their short clothes properly accommodated. Boys are frequently seen with nothing on them but a poncho, at other times a simple shirt of blue beyeta and a pair of short loose trowsers of the same material; girls wear a single petticoat and a calico shift

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exactly similar construction of the Chileno rancho is very striking. The dress of the people of El Hesch is a dark blue shirt, a pair of short trowsers, which reach to the knees, a red girdle, and a knife at their side; their legs are bare, and on their feet they wear slippers or sandals. This is the ordinary costume of the Chileno peasantry. The women of El Hesch have bare legs, and a white haick, or large cotton shawl, in which they are so enveloped that no part of their body is visible

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The arts of spinning, weaving, and dyeing, are practised solely by the women. The art of dyeing is precisely similar to that in use among the Chilenos. The more lively colours, obtained from vegetable dyes, are employed. The favourite colour is a kind of azure, or turquoise blue. The huts of the Indians are precisely the same as the rancho of Chile, not only in the construction of the more solid frame-work, but in the mode (de quinchar) of securing the bushes, preparatory to the mud coating

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surprised, who, terrified by threats, conducted us to the family, consisting of an old Indian, his son, three young women, and five children, two of which were at the breast. Two of the women were young, and really handsome, one in particular, who had blue eyes, and a fair and ruddy complexion. The men were given in charge of the guard; the women and children were seized by the Indians with an avidity which showed how greatly they valued their prize. The women did not appear much concerned by

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left arm-pit, exposed that shoulder and part of the breast on that side. Their mode of dressing their heads gave them a very ludicrous appearance, for their hair, which is very long, was divided into two parts, each part being tightly bound round, and covered with a tape, and, after encircling the head different ways, had the end brought round and laid over each ear, so that every woman appeared armed with a pair of horns, some being blue, others red, and some party-coloured, according to the hue

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its Volcano its Dykes. Lipari its Pumice and Obsidians. Volcano its Crater. Rocks in Sicily connected with Volcanic operations. Blue Clay or Marl formation. Macaluba Lago Naftia. Ante-diluvial Volcanic rocks of the Val di Noto Of the neighbourhood of Etna. Post-diluvial ditto. Brydone's statement with respect to the Lavas of Jaci Reale corrected. Antiquity of the Eruptions of Mount Etna considered. History of the Volcano Changes it has produced in the face of the neighbouring country Port of

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upper tertiary deposits, or amongst the marly beds lying above the blue shelly marl common to Austria and the Apennines. The rock itself is composed of a blackish or greyish felspathic basalt, which is sometimes compact, and contains oval nodules, partly of mamillary or botryoidal iron ore, and partly of arragonite; sometimes very porous, and with the cavities either entirely empty, are coated with globules of sph ro-siderite. The direction of the cells is from east-north-east to west-south-west

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MACALUBA. when I visited the spot, were in a state of comparative quiescence, but it is said that at times the process goes on with considerable energy, for the mud has been known to rise to the height of 200 feet, accompanied with a strong odour of sulphur. I cannot help imagining that the whole of these ph nomena may be explained by the slow combustion of beds of sulphur, which is fully ascertained to be going on in many parts of the blue clay formation. It is not long since the proprietor

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bed of blue clay, and C. that portion of it in which the gaseous exhalations originate, having a vent through the channels D. D. D. D. Now it is evident that if the stratum B. B. be water-logged, a continual stream will pass upwards through the above channels, until the level of the springs be below the summit of the hill of Macaluba. I confess that this plan is hypothetical, but as such alternations of argillaceous with porous beds occur everywhere in this formation, it is by no means

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VALDINOTO. South of Alicata we lose sight of the blue clay, and find ourselves upon a rock of a calcareous nature, sometimes homogeneous in structure, at others made up of limestone pebbles, imbedded in a calcareous basis. These beds continue as far as Cape Passero, the most southern point of the island, where they are seen to rest upon a volcanic tuff, containing fragments of a cellular lava. It became therefore of great importance to determine by the petrifactions the age of this limestone

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composed of calcareous beds of a blue colour, and without shells. From Bucuk-leman, however, on the European, and Kelscheli-leman on the Asiatic side, we observe a succession of irregular and black-looking rocks, made up of a congeries of angular fragments of a sombre grey colour, traversed by veins of chalcedony, and containing masses of compact felspar passing into basalt. Cordier says that they consist either of a basaltic wacke, having a porphyritic character of a porphyritic lava with a

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. (PI. VII, fig. 2, g. n.) White, dans son voyage la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, a donn une figure d'une grenouille de la Nouvelle-Hollande (pl. et pag. 248) sous le nom de blue frog. Mais sa description est si incompl te et sa figure est si m diocre, que nous ignorons quelles sont ses analogies avec l'esp ce que nous figurons. Cette grenouille, paisse et r guli rement proportionn e, est longue de 2 pouces et demi. Ses yeux sont gros et saillants. Son museau arrondi, court et obtus. Ses membres ant

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A little beyond the village of Casamiccola, is a conical hill, called the Monte Thabor, composed entirely of trachyte, one variety of which seems to approach to clinkstone porphyry. This trachyte rests upon a bed of clay, sometimes red and ferruginous, at others blue, in which are imbedded several species of arca, murex, turbo, and trochus, enumerated by Brocchi.* Thus the date of the trachyte cannot be anterior to that of the tertiary class of rocks. As we proceed from thence in an easterly

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natural history of the blue clay formation, which appears to be of pretty common occurrence, for it has been observed in several parts of Sicily, and likewise in the analogous rock that occurs at the foot of the Appennines.* From its supposed resemblance to the eruption of a burning mountain, it has obtained the name of a Mud or Air Volcano, though perhaps it has no more right to such a name, than the class of products called pseudo-volcanic have to an appellation, which places them in connection

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terrific violoence in 1822. The eruption began by a tremendous explosion of stones and ashes, followed by a stream of lava which covered a large tract. Four thousand persons were destroyed.* It would appear likewise from Dr. Horsfields' description that Java exhibits ph nomena of a similar kind to those noticed in Sicily, and at the foot of the Appennines, and there known under the name of Salses. In the calcareous district (which I suspect to belong to the same class of fromations as the blue

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of a very brilliant plumage: for which reason many of them are brought into Europe. Red and Blue Maccaw. P. Macao. L. Vaill. 1. Scarlet, with blue wings; yellow on wing-coverts; cheeks naked, white. Size of a fowl. South America. Red, Yellow, and Blue Maccaw. P. Araoanga. Enl. 12. Vaill. 2. Rather smaller than the last. Scarlet; rump blue; scapulars, yellowish, tipped with blue; quills, blue and green, most of them black tipped; middle tail- feather, blue; the next blue and red; and the four

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throat, and a slight crest. Otaheite. Sparman's Parrot. P. Sparmanni. Mus. Carl. 27. Vaill. 66. All the plumage deep blue. Otaheite. Blue-crested Parrot. P. Fringillaceus. Vaill. 71, or Porphyrocephalus. Nat. Mis. 1. Green; crown, slightly crested blue; throat, and bar on abdomen, red. Sandwich Islands. Blue-headed Parrot. P. Phigy. Vaill. 64. Head, deep blue, slightly violet; cheeks, throat, chest, and all underneath, fine red; scapulars, red. Friendly Islands. [page] 50

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Red-collared Barbet. B. Armillaris. Tem. Col. 89. Green; forehead, and half collar, red; back of neck, blue. Java. Blue-throated Barbet. B. Gularis. Tem. Col. 89. 2. Green, top of head, throat and edge of wings, blue; under eye, and half collar, yellow; black between the yellow and blue of the throat. Java. Yellow Mustache Barbet. B. Chrysopogon. Tem. Col. 285. Green; top of head varied with white, red, blue, and brown; throat, blue; yellow stripe from the gape. Sumatra. Party-coloured Barbet

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-feathers, grey. Brazil, c. Golden-crowned Parrakeet. P. Aureus. L. Vaill. 41. Edw. 235. Green; crown, orange; blue bar across the wings; edges of tail-feathers, blue. Brazil. Red and blue-headed Parrakeet. P. Canioularis. Enl. 767. Vaill. 40. Green; beneath, inclining to yellow; forehead, red; crown, blue. South America. Brown-throated Parrakeet. P. ruginosus. Edw. I77. Green; crown and quills, blue; cheeks and throat, grey-brown. South America. [page] 49

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, blue; spot on wings, yellow. Cayenne. Grey-breasted Parrakeet. P. Murinus. Enl. 768. Vaill. 38. Olive; quills, green; face, throat, and breast, grey. South America. Mustache Parrakeet. P. Pondicerianus. Enl. 517. Vaill. 31. Green; crown, grey; frontal bar, and behind the bill, black; breast, red. India. Ternate Blue-headed Parrot. P. Xanthosomus. Bech. Vaill. 61. Bright-green; head, neck, and large quills, bright- blue; bill, red. Ternate. [page] 49

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Bridled Parrakeet P. Capistratus. Bech. Edw. 232. Vaill. 47. Deep-green, above; yellowish green, underneath; face, surrounded with a blue band; collar, yellow. India. Lory Parrakeet. P. Ornatus. Enl. 552. Vaill. 52. Edw. 174. Green, varied with yellow; crown, blue; hind head, red; throat and breast, undulated blackish-green. India. Lace-winged Parrakeet. P. Marginatus. Vaill. 60. or P. Olivaceus. Enl. 287. Green; crown, blue; wing-coverts, blue, edged with yellow. Lugonia. Great-bellied Parrot

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, beneath; upper part of the tail, red. Brazil. Blue-headed Parrot. P. Menstruus. Enl. 384. Vaill. 114, or Flavirostris, Spix. 31. Green; head, neck, and breast, violet-blue; vent, and under tail, red. Cayenne. Purple Parrot. P. Purpureus. Enl. 406. Vaill. 115. Above, blackish-brown; below, lilac-purple; wing and tail-quills, and lower tail-coverts, blackish-blue, Guiana. [page] 49

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Autumnal Parrot. P. Autumnalis. Edw. 164. Vaill. 111. Dark green, above; apple green, beneath; forehead, red; top of head, blue. Guyana. Blue-fronted, or Havanna Parrot. P. Havanensis. Enl. 360. Vaill. 122. Green; beneath, subviolaceous; wing-spot, red; vent, yellow. Havanna. White-fronted Parrot. P. Leucocephalus. L. Enl. 335, 548-9. Vaill. 107-8, 8 bis and 9. Green, the feathers fringed with brown; front, white; cheeks and crown, blue; and throat, scarlet. Martinique. White-headed Parrot. P

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White and Green Kingfisher. ( Al. Americana. 591.) Dark green above, marked with white; beneath, white Seven inches. Cayenne. Indian Kingfisher. Al. Bengalensis. Ed. II. Blue-green above; rufous beneath; head striped blue and rufous. Four and a half inches. There is a smaller variety without the rufous on the sides of the head. Blue-headed Kingfisher. (Al. C ruleocephala.) Enl. 356. Back and wings blue; throat white; beneath rufous. Four and a half inches. India and Madagascar. Crested

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being greyish, and not smooth, shows that they do not frequent the waters. They live on insects, and have been called in French Martins-chesseurs. Great Brown Kingfisher. Al. Fusca. Gm. Gigantea, 8h. Enl. 633. Olive brown above; pale blue green underneath. Eighteen inches being the largest species. New Guinea. Little Kingfisher. Col. 277. Dac. Pulchella. Horsf. Tem. Bill deep red; back and tail barred blue and black; crown of bead blue, with whitish spots; throat white; belly orange; front

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Ceram Lory. P. Garrulus. Enl. 216. Vaill. 96. Scarlet, with shoulders and spot on back, yellow; wings, green; tail, tipped with blue. Molucca Islands, especially Ceram. Blue-tailed Lory. P. Cyanurus. Sh. Vaill. 97. Scarlet; scapulars and tail, blue; coverts, varied with blue; quills, black. Borneo. Certain small species, with a very short tail, the PSITTACULES of Kuhl, are also, though improperly, sometimes called Parakeets. Passerine Parrot. P. Passerinus. Enl. 455. Nat. Mis. 893. Spix. 33

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t. 83. and Lac. Gutturosa, Daud. from Seba. ij. t. 103, f. 3,4. Blue green, varied with oblong black dots; sides with whiteeyed black cross-bands; neck beneath plaited. South America, not Germany. Blue-headed Ameiva. Teius (A.) C ruleocephalus, Seba. i. t. 91, f. 3. Head blue; dorsal line white, with two yellow lines along each side; thighs white spotted. Blue Ameiva. Teius (A.) Cyaneus, Lacep. i. t. 31, Seba. ij. t. 105, f. 2. Bluish, sides with roundish white spots. Side-streaked Ameiva

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t. 83. and Lac. Gutturosa, Daud. from Seba. ij. t. 103, f. 3, 4. Blue green, varied with oblong black dots; sides with whiteeyed black cross-bands; neck beneath plaited. South America, not Germany. Blue-headed Ameiva. Teius (A.) C ruleocephalus, Seba. i. t. 91, f. 3. Head blue; dorsal line white, with two yellow lines along each side; thighs white spotted. Blue Ameiva. Teius (A.) Cyaneus, Lacep. i. t. 3?, Seba. ij. t. 105, f. 2. Bluish, sides with roundish white spots. Side-streaked Ameiva

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blue; quills of tail, blue; above, greenish; underneath, breast, and belly, yellowish-green. From Ceylon. Red-winged Bee-eater. M. Minutue. Vaill. 17. Above and middle tail-feathers, green; quills, brick-dust color, tipped with black. Leschenault's Bee-eater. (M. Leschenault.) Vaill. 18. Very like M. Quinticolor, but with a black band. Bullock's Bee-eater. (M. Bullock.) Vaill. 20. Feathers, shorter and more silky than in the other species; yellowish-green, above; bluish on the head; middle

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body yellowish-green beneath white; bill red beneath blue; feet brown and blue. S. America. Saltator Niger Vieil. Shining violet-black; bill and feet dull black. Brazils. Saltator Ruber from Habia Purizo Azara 88. Eyebrows and body beneath reddish; above varies red and brown; upper wing-coverts and quills deep brown; bill dull blue; feet lead-coloured. South America. Saltator Validus Vieil from Habia Robustana Az. 84. Crown black body above brown beneath reddish-white; wing coverts gray; bill

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; beneath blue; tarsi naked, white. North America. The following species, not noticed in the R gne Animal, have been named. Hir. domestica. Vieil. Azara, n. 300. Shining blue; throat and crop whitish, varied with brown; chest and belly white; tail forked. Paraguay. Hir. Cyanoleuca. Vieil. Hir. melampiga. Lich. Azara. 303. Above steel colour; wings, and tail, which is forked, sooty above, white beneath. Paraguay. H. Pyrrhonota. Vieil, not. Lath. Azara, n. 305. Crown blue; forehead, reddish brown

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white; shoulders and wing-coverts, blue. New Holland. Tabrian Parrot. P. Scapulatus. Bech. Vaill. 55, 56. Enl. 240. Head front of neck, sides and belly, brilliant deep-red, with a few blue spots under the tail; demi-collar, blue; back, green. New Holland. Tabuan Parrakeet. P. Tabuensis. Lath. or Atropurpureus. Sh. Lev. Mus. t. 34. Dark-crimson with green; back, wings, and tail-quills, and outer tail-feathers, blue. Friendly Islands. Amboina Red Parrakeet. P. Amboinensis. Gm. Enl. 240. and

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Dusky Parrot. P. Sordidus. Vaill. 104. Top of head and back, dusky; sides and behind, greenish; throat, blue; beneath, cinereous-brown. New Spain. Amazon, or Common Green Parrot, with blue forehead. P. Amazonicus. Enl. 13, 120, 312. Vaill. 98, 99. Green; bend of shoulders and patch on wings, red; crown and head, yellow; front, blue. America. Amazon Parrot. P. stivus. Enl. 547 and 897. Vaill. 110, and 110, bis. Above, dull green; top of head yellow. Underneath, paler, and more yellow green

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Blue Heron, Lath. Var. A. Ar. C ruslea, Enl. 349. Head and neck, rufous-brown; rest of body, deep blue. Cayenne. A. Equinoctialis, Catesb. 77, may he the young, notwithstanding the difference of colour. Reddish Egret, Lath. A. Rufescens, Gm. Enl. 902. Head and neck with long loose feathers, of a rusty rufous-colour; long feathers of the back, the same. Louisiana. Demi-Egret, Lath. A, Leucogaster. Enl. 350. Bill and lore, dusky-yellow; above, deep blue-black; white underneath. Cayenne. Agami

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. 457 blue-headed, vii. 172 blue-striped, vii. 172 blue-tailed, vi. 447 blue-throated, vi. 439; vii. 11 blue yellow-backed, vi. 459 blue winged yellow, vii. 172 bog, vi. 442 banana, vi. 463 Bourbon, vi. 449 brown, vi. 473; vii. 44 brown-throated, vi. 462 buff-faced, vi. 447 c rulean, vi. 458 Cape May, vi. 455 Cetti's, vi. 443 chestnut-bellied, vi. 447 chestnut-sided, vi. 456 China, vi. 449 chret, vi. 452 Cingalese, vi. 448 citron, vi. 452 citron-bellied, vi. 449 Connecticut, vi. 458 crested, vi. 333

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blue; back and body beneath blue; bill black; feet chestnut. Paraguay. Tanagra Olivacea Desm. is the young of T. Rubra. The GROSS-BEAK TANAGERS. Bill conical large swollen out higher than broad back of the upper-jaw rounded. The genus Saltator of Vieillot. Grand Tanager Tanagra Magna Gm. Saltator Olivaceus Vieil. Gal. t. 77. Pl. En. t. 205. Desm. t. 43. Olive-brown; forehead and cheeks blue; maxillary streak black; throat and vent red; eyebrow and throat-spot white. Brazil. Black-faced Tanager

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lower wing-coverts silvery; bill blade beneath blue; feet violet-black. South America. Tanagra canora Vieil. from Xiuhtototl Fernandez. Blue varied with fulvous; tail black white-tipt; wings partly blue and partly fulvous; bill reddish-white; feet gray. New Spain. Tanagra Leucocephala Vieil. Lindo Azul Cabeza blanca Azara 93. Dull violet crown bluish-white; bill black; feet blackish. South America. Tanagra Desmarestii Vieil. Forehead black crown blue; nape chin and body beneath yellow; above

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two letter green edged; top of head. upper part and throat blue; side of face ears and lower part of neck red. Tanara Thoracita. Tem. Pl. Coll. 42. 1. Greenish; beneath paler; face bill and spot on throat black; throat side of neck small wing-converts and vent orange. Brazils. Tanagra Citrinella Temm. Pl. Coll. 42.2. Yellow; face spots on throat and spots on back black; wings and tail green; beneth bluish. Brazils. Tanagra Vittata Temm. Pl. Coll. 48. 1. 2. Blue; beneath pale-brown; forehead

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and interscapulars paler; beneath brownish-white; throat white spotted. Perhaps here should be placed the genus Chloropsis of Jardine. Black-chinned Thrush Lath. T. Cochinsinensis Gml. Meliphaga Javanica Horsf. Vieil. O. D'Or. ii. t. 77. 78. Green; lores and crop black; lower jaw with a blue streak; a yellow moon under the throat; bend of the wing shining blue; length five inches and half. India. Yellow-fronted Thrush Lath. T. Malabaricus Gml. Jar. Ill. Zool. t. 5. Green shining; forehead orange

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Corvus Brachyurus e Lath. Sonn. Voy. t. 110.Pitta Superciliaris Wag. Head and nape black; eyebrows greenish blue-edged; throat white; crop and back green; belly reddish; vent red. Malacca. Pitta Versicolor Swain. Zool. Jour. Green beneath fulvous; rump and wing-coverts c rulean blue; vent red; crown rufous; nape chin and abdominal spot black. New Holland. Corvus Brachyurus . Lath. Pl. Enl. t. 89. Pitta Melanocephala Wag. Edw. 324. Green; head and neck black; rump and wing-coverts bluish-green

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ears and quills black; latter blue tipt; legs long; length nine inches. Sumatra. Blue-Winged Breve. Pitta Cyanoptera Tem. Pl. Col. t. 218. Back and scapulars green; wing-coverts and rump blue; head chin and neck black; crown and half collar yellowish; throat white; breast yellow; belly and vent red. Quill and tail black; former white-banded; latter blue tipt; length seven inches. Java. Pitta Angolensis Vieil. Head black; dull yellow-green; throat streaked reddish; collar yellow; beak green

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blue, which forms a portion of the wing-coverts. The acorn constitutes its principal food. It is one of those birds which evince the greatest disposition to the imitation of all kinds of sounds. It nestles in our woods, and lives in pairs, or in small flocks. Add Blue Jay. corvus Cristatus. Enl. 529. Viel. Gal. 102. Blue, above; white, underneath; black streaks on side of face, and crescent on the breast. Eleven inches. America. Steller's Crow. C. Steileri. Vail. Ois. de Par., and c. I. 44. Purple

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. Bengalensis. Enl. 285. Top of the head, green; hind part of neck and back, fulvous; lower part of back, blue; belly, blue-green; throat, reddish white. The same as Indica, Edw. 326, and Albin's figure, 1.17, cited under cawlata. Coracias Viridis Nob. Vail. I. 36. Vieil. Gal. 110. Forehead and throat, reddish white; top of head and neck, of back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and underneath, aquamarine. East Indies. Coracias Temminckii. Vail. pl. G. Tuft of feathers on head, aquamarine; neck, throat

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Oriental Roller. (C. Orientalis. 619.) Head and neck, brown; green-brown above; blue-green underneath; quills, blue and black; size of a jay. East Indies. Madagascar Roller. (C. Madagascariensis. Enl. 501.) Plumage in general, rusty purplish-brown; rump and vent, blue-green; tail, blue-green; tip, blackish. African Roller. (C. Afra. Lath.) Pale cinnamon above; paler beneath; quills, blue; tail, tipped black. Eight and a half inches. Africa.* BIRDS OF PARADISE. (PARADISEA. L.) Have, like the

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). EnL 83. Vieil. 41, 2, 3, and Gal. 176. Black above; blue beneath. Four inches. Brazil. Young, green; wings and tail, blue. (Cer. C rulea. Edw.) Head blue, with black spot round the eye; body violet blue; wings and tail black. Four inches. Berbice. To these may probably be added: Crimson Creeper (Cer. Sanguinea. Vieil. 66. J Crimson; deeper above; quiUsblack; vent white. Five inches. Sandwich Islands. * Add, Petrodroma Bailloni. Vieilot Dict. H. Nat. from New Holland. Petrodroma Sanguinea of

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Egyptius are varieties of this. Variegated Bee-Eater (Me. Ornatus.) Lath. Back and wings green, varied red and yellow; head varied red, black, blue, and yellow; tail blue; outer feathers red. Two middle tail-feathers longest. New Holland. Superb Bee-Eater (Me. Superbus.) Nat. mis. 18. Plumage generally red; forehead, eye, throat, and rump blue. Middle tail-feathers longest. Nine inches. Chesnut Bee-Eater (Me. Senegalensis. Enl. 314, et Badius, 252.) Vaill. 12, 13. Upper part of head, neck, and

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. Ib. 50. Shining-blue, above; beneath, rufous; head, black, transversely banded with blue. India. And sometimes they have the lower mandible swelled out. Cape Kingfisher. Al. Capensis. 599. Blue green above, inclining to ash; underneath, fulvous; chin white. Fourteen inches. South Africa, and probably India and China. Black-capped Kingfisher. Al. Atricapilla.673. Head and neck, above, black; upper parts deep blue; throat and belly white and rufous. Ten inches. China. Smyrna Kingfisher. Al

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Varieties of this seem to be found is Java and India. This is one of the two species distinguished by Aristotle. Ternate, Kingfisher. Al. Dea. 116. Head, glossy blue; back brown, margined with blue; underneath, rose white. Thirteen and a quarter inches. Island of Ternate. M. Vigors makes this the type of his genus TANY- SIPTERA. Green-headed Kingfisher. Al. Chlorocephala.783. Head, green; back, dusky black; beneath, white. Nine inches. The Molucca Islands. Probably allied to the collared

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Bornean Lory. P. Borneus. Vaill. 44. Red; quills and tail-feathers, tipt with green; blue spot on wings. Borneo. Black Parrakeet. P. Nov Guinea. Vaill. 49. Glossy blue-black; tail, red; beneath. New Guinea. Crimson-fronted, Parrakeet. P. Concinnus. Vaill. 48. Green; forehead, temples, and sides of rump, Scarlet. Small Parrot of White. P. Pusillus. Vaill. 63. Green; frontlet and base of tail-feathers, red. About seven inches long. New Holland. Red-banded Parrot. P. Humeralis. Vaill. 50. Above

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Hawk-headed Parrot. P. Accipitrinus. Enl. 520. Spix. 32. a. Green; head and neck, ferruginous, waved with blue. India. Senegal Parrot. P. Senegallus. Enl. 288. Vaill. 116, 118. Green; head and quills, ash-colour; beneath, orange. Senegal. Le Vaillant's Parrot. P. Levaillantii, Lath. P. Infuscatus. Sh. Vaill. 130-131. Olive-brown, varied with green; shoulders and thighs, orange. Eastern parts of Africa. Amboina Parrot. P. Gramineus. Enl. 862. Vaill. 121. Green; beneath, olive; crown, blue

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Bonnetted Parrot. P. Mitratus. Pr. Max. Col. 207, or Maitaca, Spix. 29 f. 1. and 30. Green; top of head, and ears, orange-red; quills, and tail, edge of humerus, blue; female with head green, and blue forehead. Brazils. Diadem Parrot. P. Diadema. Spix. 32. Blue-green; forehead, and throat, bluish; crown, yellow-blue; nape, and chest, green; middle of wings, purple and yellow; primaries, green. Brazils. Such species as have the ground colour of the plumage red, and the tail slightly cuneiform