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Identifier: birdsEuropeVGoul (find matches)
Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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ves the preference to rocky shores, whichappear to form the best and most natural situation when in a state of repose. On level ground its walk isawkward and inelegant, and when on wing its flight is heavy and apparently effected with great labour. Along the top of the upper mandible runs a line of crimson, the remainder being reddish at the base andyellowish at the tip ; the under mandible pale red ; the pouch reddish yellow; the naked spaces aroundthe eyes are flesh colour ; the occiput is slightly crested ; the whole of the plumage is white, tinged more orless with salmon colour, with the exception of the crest and a few pendulous feathers attached to the lower partof the neck, which are pale yellow, and the primaries and spurious wings, which are black ; legs flesh colour;claws grey ; irides hazel. The salmon-coloured tint which pervades the whole of the plumage is considerablyheightened during the breeding-season. We have figured an adult male about one third of the natural size.
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DALMATIAN PELICAN. Pelecanus crispus, Feld. A bird of such striking magnitude as the present having so long escaped observation even on the shoresof Europe, what may we not expect from those more distant countries to which the scrutinizing eye of thenaturalist has seldom penetrated ? Although this species has been introduced to the notice of the scientificwithin the last few years only, it has doubtless long abounded where it is now found. The specimen fromwhich our figure is taken was sent us by Baron de Feldegg, and was one of twenty-four killed by him onthe shores of Dalmatia. In the letter which accompanied this specimen the Baron thus writes : The first example of this bird thatcame under my notice was shot by myself in the year 1828 in Dalmatia, and was sent to the Imperial Cabinetin Vienna. Two years after this, Messrs. Ruppell and Kittlitz met with this species in Abyssinia, where,however, it would appear to be very scarce, as those gentlemen procured only a single specimen. I

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