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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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nsist, whether animal or vegetable, its digestive powers being apparentlyadapted to a great variety. On the approach of spring- it becomes noisy and restless, betaking itself to the top branches of high trees,where it utters its harsh note for the day together: the note greatly resembles the noise made by the filingof a saw, or the creaking of a gate on rusty hinges. It builds a nest in the holes of decayed trees, in the crevices of walls, often in the deserted nest of a crow,a bed of cows hair and feathers being the receptacle of the eggs ; these vary in number from eight to fifteen,and are of a white colour spotted with reddish brown. The sexes offer but little difference of plumage, the female having less brilliancy of gloss. The head, throat, and lower part of the neck glossy black ; occiput white; back olive green ; rump grey ;under parts fine yellow, with a black mesial streak; tarsi bluish grey ; bill black. Our Plate represents the male and female of the natural size. —*»*.
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loSOMBIRE TIT,Parus lugubriS; (jVaJ?:) 2 o SIBE MAN TITParas Sitencus; (Gwie6:J. Drtvwfvjy-cwu JlTafawe/ &> cn-SXivt-vV J~&U. &ou&d/; -riowdel. SOMBRE TIT. Parus lugubris, Natt.Le Mesange lugubre. We have figured on the accompanying Plate two species of Tits, nearly allied to each other in form, colourand native locality, neither of which approach the British Islands, nor even the more temperate parts ofthe European continent. The first is the Parus lugubris, a species that may at all times be distinguishedby its greater size, exceeding, although but in a small degree, our well-known P. major: it is, however,clothed with plumage less gaudy, being entirely devoid of those contrasts of black, white, and yellow, whichcharacterize the plumage of that species. M. Temminck informs us that the Parus lugubris is almost restricted to the European confines of theAsiatic border, and that, although pretty common in Dalmatia, it has never been observed in Austria or anypart of G

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