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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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its eggs as yet ascertained. The male has the top of the head, with the exception of a white line down the middle, and the spacebetween the beak and the ear-coverts, black; a broad white streak passes over the eye, and down the sidesof the neck and throat; the whole of the upper surface is rich brown, each feather having a darker markin the centre; this brown colouring passes into rufous on the chest, which it surrounds like a collar; thewings are of the same colour as the back; secondaries tipped with white; primaries and tail brown, thetwo outer feathers of the latter white on their outer edges; the flanks red brown, each feather having thecentre darkest; under surface white; legs and bill dull yellow brown. The plumage of the female is somewhat paler and more obscure than that of the male, and the black whichornaments the head of the male is replaced by brown ; the stripe over the eye and down the throat is yellowishwhite. The Plate represents a male and female of the natural size.
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LESBIAN BIOTTIjTOt.Embenza LesLia; (Cruel:J %■ SdoKa by f<&J7. Could-. FrunU^iiu &IfaZhvia*tcU//. LESBIAN BUNTING. Emberiza Lesbia. Le Bruant de Mitilene. The Emberiza Lesbia is one of the rarest species of the present genus, but at the same time one of the mostuniversally distributed ; it sparingly inhabits the eastern parts of southern Europe, and occurs but very rarelyin Italy and Provence ; it is also found in Greece, and we have seen it in collections from China. M. Tem-minck states that it is found also in Japan, where it is known under the name of Jamuzuzume In its habits and manners it doubtless closely resembles the other members of the family, and but littledifference is perceptible between the sexes. The head is greyish olive, with a stripe of dark brown down the centre of each feather; back of the neckand back reddish brown, with a broader and more conspicuous stripe down each feather, but becoming nearlyimperceptible on the rump ; wing-coverts chestnut, strip

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