File:The birds of Europe (1837) (14565356679).jpg

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Woodpecker remains with us the wholeof the year, and having attained its adult stage of plumage undergoes no subsequent variation. The top ofthe head, the occiput, and moustache or stripe on the cheek, are of a brilliant red ; the face black ; the uppersurface fine green ; the rump tinged with yellow ; the under parts pale greyish green ; quill-feathers brown,crossed with bars of yellowish white; tail brown, barred transversely with a lighter colour ; bills and legsgreyish green ; irides white. The female differs from the male externally only in being rather less in size and in the absence of the redmoustache, which colour is supplied by black. The young have only traces of red on the head; the moustache is indicated by black and white feathers ; thegeneral colour is paler and more obscure, the back being marked with ash-coloured blotches, and the underparts with brown zigzag bars ; irides dark grey. We have figured an adult male and a young bird in the plumage of the first autumn. »
Text Appearing After Image:
GrJRElT HEADJEB G-JRE E^f Iff® OBPE CKBM,.Picas camis, CGmekriJ. Mnxmu from,SiAJwrt/Sbmerfr/ J~fc£. GtmZcL Jnnkd h/ CMuinucfuui. GREY-HEADED GREEN WOODPECKER. Picus canus, Gmel.Le Pic cendre. We have reason to think with M. Temminck, that the present species has been often confounded with thePicus viridis; but it may be distinguished by its rather smaller size, and the grey colour of its head, the redmark on the top of which is more circumscribed, while in the female it is entirely wanting. In generalhabits, however, the two species are altogether similar, and may be taken as examples of a group includingsome species from the Himalaya mountains, and other parts of the old world, which present a departure inseveral characteristics from the more typical Woodpeckers, of which we have given the Picus martins as arepresentative. The subjects of this group appear more terrestrial in their habits, searching for their foodon the ground, and less exclusively confined to the trees as climbers

Note About Images