📗 Excerpt from Œuvres Complètes de Buffon, Vol. 7: Les OiseauxDelon et Turner, avant lui, appliquent à cet oiseau le nom grec de Imi pologos, rendu en latin par celui de culicz'lega, oiseau recueillant les mou charons ce nom, ou plutôt cette dénomination, semble convenir parfaite ment à la lavandrere; néanmoins il me paraît certain que le knipologos des Grecs est un tout autre oiseau.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.