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Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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I PL 90. Nightingale.Bluethroat (adult and young). P 220.
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(\ (ji P 22\. Nightingale on nest. STONECHAT. 221 the wings. It has a fine song— as if a golden pea leaped andvibrated in the pipe behind his gaudy bib, says Miss Haviland,but no one records the song during its spring visits to Britain,too often cut short by the collectors gun. The nest is shownon Plate 93. The upper parts of the male in spring are brown, with a whiteor buff superciliary stripe, and the proximal half of the tail,except the two central feathers, rich chestnut. The throat andbreast are blue with a broad band-like spot of chestnut, andbelow the blue are bands of black, white and chestnut, aboveits whitish under parts. The bill is black, the legs brown, theirides dark brown. The female has tawny white under partsexcept for a dark band across the breast. The young are atfirst spotted and streaked, as shown in the upper figure, butafter the moult resemble the female. Length, 57 ins. Wing,29 ins. Tarsus, i*i ins. The White-spotted Bluethroat, C. s. cyanecula (Wolf) is them

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