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Identifier: birdsEuropeVGoul (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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black of the cheeks, which is exchangedfor delicate white ; this white also characterizes the young of the year, which can only be distinguished fromthe adult in winter, by the darker colouring of the body, and by the more abbreviated and fleshy coloured bill.There is no perceptible difference in the sexes at either season. Independently of the great resort of this bird to the British Isles, they abound in similar situations along thewhole of the coast of Northern Europe, whence they gradually migrate southwards on the approach of winter,returning again with the vast shoals of fishes which pass northward in spring. The whole of the upper surface of the throat and neck is of a uniform sooty black, inclining to grey, witha slender bar of white, which extends half across the wings ; the under surface is a delicate white ; billblackish brown ; irides dark hazel; tarsi dark brown, with a slight tinge of olive. The Plate represents an adult and a young bird of the year of the natural size.
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