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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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ale has the top of the head, back of the neck, ear-coverts, and chest grey; a narrow streak of the same colourpasses from the chest to the base of the lower mandible ; throat, cheeks, and a narrow band across the foreheadlight chestnut brown; upper part of the back brown, each feather having a darker centre; rump and upper tail-coverts brown without spots; the whole of the abdomen rich chestnut brown, more intense on the breast;wings dark brown ; the secondaries and scapularies strongly edged with light brown inclining to chestnut; taildark brown, the outer edges of the feathers chestnut, and the two outer ones on each side largely tipped withwhite on their inner webs. The female has the chest marked with numerous small spots of black on a ground of brownish grey, whichcolour pervades the whole of the head; the remainder of the plumage resembles that of the male, only beingmuch less intense in colour. The Plate represents a male and female in their spring plumage, of the natural size.
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M.AJRSM BTOTTWG-oEmt eriz a palustris; fSayij ... -.■-■ ->\ ■■?::■„:,, /«::>■, ? J; n. oiw, . MARSH BUNTING. Emberiza palustris, Savi. This rare species, which offers so close a resemblance in general colouring and habits to our well-knownBlack-headed Bunting, (Emberiza melanocephala, Scopoli,) exhibits nevertheless, in the robust structure of itsbeak, a departure from the typical characters of the genus, and either forms its extreme limits, or may beregarded as the representative of another genus ; but its affinities are at present but little understood, thebird itself being very rare, and only to be met with in the southern and eastern provinces of Europe. The best account of this bird is to be found in Professor Savis Ornitologia Toscana, according towhich eminent author it dwells in the marshes of Tuscany, but he has not yet been able to obtain a sight ofits nest and eggs ; if, however, we may judge from analogy, we may

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