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Identifier: britishbirds819141915lond (find matches)
Title: British birds
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Witherby & Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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st, and having studied the move-ments of migrants on arrival and departure for manyyears, I am convinced that we get more erratic visitorsduring a period of excessive heat and no wind. Suchbirds I always look upon as wanderers, and of moreinterest than those that are blown ashore in a gale,and are, after aU, only blown out of their course andnaturally aUght if lucky enough to reach land. In the case of these two RiippeUs Warblers, theplace where they were shot was just the spot for anywanderers to our coasts to drop in, being a very large,open, disused stone-quarry, situated in the midst ofa very large wood, and overgrown with brambles andthick undergrowth, the accumulation of years. Inaddition to having seen the birds in the flesh, I happento know the man who shot them, and am quite satisfied 94 BRITISH BIRDS. (vol. vra. with the result of an interview I have had with himon the subject. The photograph, of which a reproduction is givenlie re, I took as soon as the bird was mounted. It
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RiJPPELLS WARBLER (MALE) SHOT AT BALDSLOW, SUSSEX,ON MAY 5TH, 1914. gives a very good i^ea of the original and may beinteresting to many, as very few even of the mostexpensive works give an illustration of this species. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. VOL. vni.) RUPPELLS WARBLER. 95 Description.—Adult male. Winter.—Fore-head, lores andcrown black, feathers lightly tipped grey; rest of upper-parts french-grey slightly darker on upper tail-coverts;chin and tliroat black, some feathers lightly tipped white;from base of bill to base of ear-coverts a conspicuous whitemoustachial stripe; ear-coverts dark french-grey, some-times almost black ; breast, belly and under tail-covertsgreyish-white tinged pink, centre of belly pure white;flanks and axillaries pale grey, slightly tinged pink ; tail-feathers black, central pair and outer webs of others tingedgrey and fringed whitish, outermost pair white with onlybase black, next (penultimate) pair with the tip whiteextending to about distal third of inner

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