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Identifier: birdsEuropeIIIGoul (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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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from its pert andfamiliar manners, and its aptness in learning words and even sentences. Bill black, from the base of which a large moustache of the same colour extends over the cheeks; the topof the head is covered with a short full crest, the feathers of which are brownish grey, with a central dash ofblack, exhibiting as they pass to the occiput faint transverse bars of blue ; the whole of the upper surface, aswell as the under, is, with the exception of the upper and under tail-coverts (which are white), of a richvinous or reddish ash colour; wings ornamented with a beautiful blue speculum barred with black; theshoulders chestnut barred with dusky brown ; the primaries are silvery white on their outer edges ; thesecondaries are black, except the first three or four feathers, which are white at their base ; tail black, the twomiddle feathers exhibiting faint indications of blue bars at their base; irides blueish grey ; tarsi brown. The Plate represents the bird of the natural size.
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