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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
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e loan of the fine specimen from which our figure was taken, to theliberality and kindness of Captain S. E. Cook, who observed the species to be pretty abundant in theneighbourhood of Madrid, from whence he procured it in a recent state, with several other birds equally rareand valuable. The beak and legs are black ; crown of the head, occiput and ear-coverts, black with shining violetreflections ; the whole of the back and rump ashy rose-colour ; throat white ; the under surface the sameas the back, with the exception of its being a few shades lighter ; wings and tail delicate azure blue, theprimaries, with the exception of the two first which are wholly black, white on their outer web for abouthalf their length from the tip; tail graduated, each feather tipped with white, the two middle ones moreobscurely so : total length from twelve to fourteen inches. The sexes do not differ in external appearance. Our Plate represents an individual in its finest plumage, and of the natural size.
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ALiPIJ^E -CHOUG-M,Fyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax. Mrfflm, fr<mi,J\fato?*& & on, Jlww dy J~&J?. ffonld: JHnted-fy Genus PYRRHOCORAX. Gen. Char. Beak shorter than the head, conical, and somewhat bent towards the tip, with aslight notch at the point. Nostrils basal, lateral, and conical, with fine hairs directedforwards. Tarsi and toes strong and robust. Nails strong and hooked. Wings long, thefourth and fifth quill-feathers the longest. ALPINE CHOUGH. Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax.Le Choquard des Alpes. In all large families like that of the Corvidce, we seldom fail to meet with various anomalous and isolatedforms, which appear to stand out from the general group, amalgamating with none of the principal or morenumerously filled sections into which the family is divided, but appearing like links of a chain connecting thefamily with others widely aberrant from it. Though we cannot in every instance trace a due succession ofthese links, the continuity of the chain being often interrupted

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