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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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was in a fir plantation about eight hundred orone thousand yards from the house, and I distinguishedthe note very plain. I stole up quietly and identifiedthe bird. I had often heard the sound before, andalways took it for Tengmalms Owl; so to make quitesure I shot it. It must have a large range in Scan-dinavia, for as you know I shot a family of youngflyers at Quickiock, and I do not believe that this placeis its most southern range, although they have neverbeen found breeding in Scania, (nor for the matter ofthat can I learn that any one has really got authenticeggs,) and are very rare or only accidental in Denmark. They are very bold and voracious for their size, andI have more than once seen them strike down a Tit-mouse in the forest. Although we know nothing forcertain of its breeding habits, we may take it for grantedthat it lays more than two eggs, as stated by Temminck;for out of the family I saw at Quickiock, I obtainedfour specimens, and I am not certain but that oneescaped.
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N A U M A N N 5 T H R U a H. 9MS Family TURDIDJE.Genus Turdus. NAUMANNS THBUSH. Turdus natimanni, Temminck. In vol. i, p. 19^2, I have introduced tlie figure andnotice of a bird under tlie above name. The figure istaken from Goulds plate of Turdus fuscatus, which isgiven as a synonyme, and was at that time consideredby Gould and other naturalists as identical with thetrue T. naumanni, figured in Plate LXVIII of Nau-manns Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands, andfally described at p. 288 of that work. The identity of the two species was not howeverfully admitted by naturalists, and in the continuation ofNaumanns work by Professor Blasius, they are describedand figured as distinct, I have not been able to consultthis volume of the work, but Dr. Sclater has entertainedthe question in the Ibis, vol. iv, p. 319, admitting thecorrectness of this division, and giving a figure of whathe considers the true T. naumanni, from a skin be-longing to Mr. Gould, which was that of a bird shotat Shan

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