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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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thick-set, velvety feathers of a dark grey, having in the centre a broad longitudinal bandof rich chestnut,—at least during the summer, for we are as yet in doubt whether this character be lost aswinter advances; certain it is, that the adult birds taken in autumn have both the grey and chestnut of thethroat less distinct and intermingled with patches of white. When the bird has become fully adult, the whitespecks which more or less distinguish the upper plumage of the young birds, according to their age, disappear,leaving the back of a uniform greenish brown. The upper part of the head and back of the neck are markedwith longitudinal, wavy, narrow lines of white edged with black ; breast and under parts white; flanks dashedwith ash-coloured blotches; beak black; irides orange ; tarsi on their external aspect, and toes, of a deepolive black, having their internal sides and webs of a livid white. We have figured an adult and a young bird of the year two thirds of their natural size.
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EOOJLISH (&UIJLJLEMOT Una Troile; fZafrk.) ^j-rjA-m -rr.-r,: S:ahvff. £■ en, -JZout, (ty J~&£.GouZA. /J>stf6:l by S. JndimsxndAA. Genus URIA. Gen. Char. Beak of mean length, straight, strong, compressed, and pointed ; upper mandibleslightly arched ; tomia, intracted; angle of the lower mandible gently ascending; commissurenearly straight. Nostrils basal, lateral, concave, longitudinally cleft, and half covered withthe feathers of the antice, or projecting side angles of the cranium. Wings short, narrow,and acute. Tail of twelve or fourteen feathers, very short. Legs situated at the back ofthe abdomen and concealed within its integuments. Tarsi short and compressed. Feetof three toes, all directed forwards and palmated; outer and middle toes of equal length,the inner one much shorter. Claws fulcate, the middle one the longest. FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. Uria Troile, Linn.Le Grand Guillemot. The native habitat of this well-known bird extends throughout the northern regions of bot

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