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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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in its mark-ings. The adult birds present no external sexual differences, the colour of the whole of the upper surfacebeing of a dark brown, inclining to black with coppery reflections; a collar of the same colour passing roundthe neck ; the cheeks white, shaded towards the lower parts with delicate gray; the whole of the undersurface white ; the bill blueish ash at its base passing off to a bright reddish orange, with three oblique furrowson the upper and two on the lower mandible ; the gape covered by a naked puckered membrane ; irides blueishgray ; rim round the eye orange; above and below the eye, on the edges of the eyelids, are small bodies of ahorny consistence and a deep slate-colour, that below the eye being narrow and two lines in length; theiruse is not known; legs orange. Total length eleven to twelve inches. Their food consists of fishes andmarine insects. Our Plate represents a male and female in different positions, to exhibit the peculiar character of theirphysiognomy.
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