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Identifier: britishgamebirds00morr (find matches)
Title: British game birds and wildfowl
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Morris, Beverley Robinson Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Game and game-birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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per tail coverts, the wing coverts and tertials are reddish ash-colour, each featherhaving a central longitudinal streak of umber brown. Primaries, purplish black; the 108 GREAT PLOVER. two first have a large patch of yellowish white an inch and a half from the tips;secondaries, also purplish black. Chin and upper part of neck, white; lower neck, breast,abdomen, and flanks, yellowish white, the shaft of each feather streaked with umberbrown. Vent and under tail coverts, ochreous; the tail has the feathers black at thetips, above which is a bar of white, while the upper halves are yellowish brown, withdarker markings. Legs and toes, greenish yellow; claws, black brown. The female does not differ materially from the male. The young birds are somewhat lighter coloured, and the markings are not so decidedas in the adult. The length of the Great Plover is sixteen to seventeen inches. The plate is taken from a drawing from a recent specimen by John Gatcombe, Esq.,of Wyndham Place, Plymouth.
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109 GOLDEN PLOVER GEEEN PLOVEE. YELLOW PLOVER. Charadrius plurialis, ..... ~Lnrssexs&. Squatarola plurialis, ..... Selbt. Plutier dare, ..... TiararxcK. Charadriu-s. Charadra—A furrow or chasm, from its frequenting such places. Plurialis—Rainy, or denoting rain. This handsome bird is one of the most generally known and esteemed of the truePlovers; being a permanent resident, it becomes extensively known from its frequentingdifferent districts in winter, and in the breeding-season; and in suitable localities is every-where abundant, particularly in wild districts where it has ample opportunities fornidification and procuring food. They are, we believe, pretty generally distributed overthe countrv; we have met with them on the wild moor-land in the south-west of Dorset;they occur also in various other parts of the south of England—-in Somersetshire andOxfordshire, but become more numerous to the north, occurring in Yorkshire and theneighbouring counties in tolerable abundance,

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