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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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with blotches of dark green. The sexes offer but little difference in plumage; neither does the summer and winter dress exhibit muchvariation, the beak being more or less yellow in winter, but deep black in summer. In the male the top of the head, the cheeks and back of the neck are of a blueish ash; the scapularsand the two secondary feathers nearest the body are deep brown ; all these feathers being bordered witha lighter colour; the remainder of the secondaries, the wing-coverts and the coverts of the tail are purewhite ; tail white, with the exception of the two centre feathers, which are blackish, and the whole tippedwith the same colour ; quill-feathers deep black ; the under parts are white or whitish according to age;feet brown. This description applies to the female also, except that we find in her the ash colour of the headtinged with rusty brown, and the quill-feathers brown instead of black. We have figured a male in summer plumage, and a female in that peculiar to winter.
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WUMTEI& FIRCIL Frmgillahyemalis; (LwunJ ibwvm,Jr,mv Muam & cm Jtontt iy J£J5. Gaulcl f0 WINTER FINCH. Fringilla ? hyemalis.Le Brnant Jacobin. The natural habits of this little Finch lead it to extend its summer migrations further north perhaps than mostother members of the Passerine Order, and it is consequently an inhabitant of the regions far within thearctic circle, is common in Greenland, and has within the last few years been added to the Fauna of Europe.In the third part of his Manuel M. Temminck states that it occasionally visits Iceland, and may perhaps beconsidered a bird of periodical passage in this portion of Europe. Like the Robin the Winter Finch evinces little fear of man, and readily admits his near approach even infine weather, and in hard weather is so gentle and tame, says M. Audubon, that it becomes, as it were,a companion to every child, and is indeed as well known and as much cherished by every person inAmerica as the Robin is in Europe. It usually lives

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