File:Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds - illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes (1794) (14563210999).jpg

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Title: Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ...
Year: 1794 (1790s)
Authors: Bolton, James, fl. 1775-1795
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Stannary, near Halifax : Printed and sold by the author ... London : Sold also by B. and J. White ...
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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the lower, is extended below the cheeks,and curved towards the back part of the neck, divid-ing the gray colour of the cheeks from the black ofthe throat. The top of the head and back, are agrayish ash colour; the rump, a dull greenish yellow.The tail is long and a little forked ; the two outmostfeathers on each side, white ; the rest black with greenedges : the first and second order of quills are blackwith gray edges ; the last order have broad margins ofa pale gray, and are very long, the third from thebody, reaching to the tip of the first quills, as in theLarks. The throat in the male is black; in the female,a dusky yellow. The breast, belly, and covert feathers under the tail,in both sexes are a bright yellow. The little Dragon-fly* figured on the plate, is onthe wing in May. Its haunts are near ponds andrivers; it is frequent amongst the bushes beside theriver Calder, near Halifax, and is, I think, the prettiestspecies of Dragon-fly we have in England. Libellula Minus Linnaei.
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