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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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n the bare ground, and are hatched in the last week of July. They are an inch and a half in length, of an olive colour with many dark brown blotches. In summer, the head and upper part of the throat are blackish grey, bounded below by a collar of velvet black; the mantle and wings bluish grey; greater coverts and primaries deep black, the latter tipped with white; edge of the shoulder and the extremities of the secondaries white, forming an oblique band across the wing; neck, all the under surface, and tail pure white; bill black at the base, and yellow at the tip; eyelids red ; irides, legs, and feet black. The young birds of the year have the head mottled with blackish grey and white; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts blackish grey tinged with yellow brown ; wing-primaries white with black ends; throat and breast pale ash colour; belly white; upper and under tail-coverts white; tail-feathers white tipped with black. We have figured an adult male in the summer plumage, of the natural size.
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