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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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icularly fond of grass-seeds, and grain and berriesof all kinds. M. Audubon also states that in its habits and manners it much resembles the Sparrow, resortingfor shelter during cold weather to stacks of corn and hay, but in fine weather evincing a preference for theevergreen foliage of the holly, cedar, low pines, &c. Of its nest and eggs nothing is known. According to M. Audubon its flesh is extremely delicate and juicy, on which account it is frequently exhi-bited for sale. The male has the head, all the upper surface, eight middle tail-feathers, wing-coverts, primaries, and chestblackish grey; secondaries blackish brown margined with reddish brown ; two outer tail-feathers on eachside white; under surface white, with a tinge of rufous on the flanks and under tail-coverts; bill reddishwhite with a black tip; irides blackish brown ; feet and claws flesh colour. The female differs in being of a lighter grey tinged with brown. We have figured a male and female of the natural size.
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Lmaria Cannal)ma; (Jwams:) 2?rMmfhm>JVa£are, £ on,jbm* fa, J&J5. GviaM. Genus LIN ARIA, Auct, Gen. Char. Bill straight, conical, entire ; mandibles compressed in front, and forming a verysharp point. Nostrils basal, lateral, concealed by incumbent feathers. Wings long, acu-minate; first, second, and third quill-feathers of nearly equal length. Tail more or lessforked. Tarsi slender, short. Feet having the lateral toes of equal length ; the hind toewith its claw as long as the middle one. Claws slender, acute, curved, that upon the hindtoe larger, and in old birds much longer than the rest. COMMON, OR BROWN LINNET. Linaria cannabina, Swains.Le Gros-bec Linotte. The seasonal changes of plumage to which the Fringillidce are generally subjected is in no one of the tribemore strikingly exemplified than in the birds constituting the restricted genus Linaria, of which the CommonLinnet is the largest, and offers the most contrasted changes, being in winter clothed in a sombre and nea

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