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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
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the year, forms no inconsiderable trade, although it mustbe acknowledged that the bird is more to be valued for its beauty than for its song, which is very inferior tothat of the Linnet or Canary. The adult has the forehead and cheeks rich orange scarlet; a black line passes from the base of the beakto the eye, the top of the head, and occiput, the latter having a white space between it and the scarlet of thecheeks ; back and sides of the chest olive brown ; wings black, each feather being tipped with white, and thecentre crossed by a bright band of yellow ; tail black tipped with white ; under surface greyish white ; beakhorn-colour ; legs and feet flesh-colour. In the young the whole of the head, back, and sides of the chest are greyish brown ; the wings resemblethose of the adult, except that the band of yellow is neither so broad nor so bright, and the markings on thewings are brownish white instead of pure white. The Plate represents an adult and a young bird of the natural size.
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?I§KIM OJR ABBEDEti:Carduelis spinns; fddepk./ Drwmijrt.Ta ,7Kum<e <& an* Starve fy J~& £. £m Jhnhel fy 6!M<J£mande£: SISKIN, or ABERDEVINE. Carduelis spinus, Steph.Le Gros-bec tarin. The mild and docile disposition which this lovely little bird evinces while in captivity, in unison with its tameand harmless manners in a state of nature, secure for it a more than usual degree of friendship and interest.It is not in the cheerful month of May, when all nature is alive to the harmonies of our newly arrived summervisitors, and when the freshly emerged foliage of our woods and gardens presents a universal nosegay, thatthe little emigrant before us is to be observed ; for at that time it has bidden us farewell, to visit morenorthern climes, whither it has retired for the purpose of breeding and rearing its young. Its native habitatappears to be the higher regions of the European continent, and it is only in its most northern portions thatit has, with any degree of cert

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