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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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n the rump ; wings and tail blackish-brown ; underparts white, except a mottled brown pectoral band ; bill black ; legsdark brown, with a tuft of pale buff-coloured feathers above the hindtoe. Length 4*8 ; wing 4 in. The female has a rather narrowerband across the throat. The young bird, shown in the upper figureof the woodcut, has the feathers of the upper parts tipped with dullwhite, and the under parts tinged with buff. In the rocky gorges and mountainous regions of Central andSouthern Europe many of my readers may have noticed a ratherlarger bird, resembling our Sand-Martin in the colour of its upperparts, but displaying white spots on its outspread tail. This is theCrag-Martin, Cbtile nipcstris, a bird which has not yet been foundin the British Islands, but which may possibly stray to our shores,as it breeds regularly no further off than Switzerland. This specieshas not the small tuft of feathers on the tarsus, and its eggs arespotted, like those of the Swallow. FRINGILLIN.E. i6i
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ira^> THE GREENFINCH. LiGURiNUS CHL()Ris (Linna^us). The Greenfinch, sometimes called the Green Linnet, is a commonand well-known resident species in the cultivated and wooded dis-tricts of Great Britain and Ireland. In the bleaker portions of ourislands it is, naturally, less abundant; but it has spread with theincrease of plantations of late years, and even in the Orkneys itnow breeds sparingly, although to that group, the Hebrides and theShetlands, it is chiefly a visitor in autumn and winter. Large flocksannually arrive on our east coast in October. To the Faeroes the Greenfinch is only a rare wanderer ; but southof 65° N. lat. in Norway and 60 in the Ural Mountains it is moreor less sedentary in suitable localities throughout Europe. In Spain,Northern Africa, Palestine and Asia Minor, our comparativelylarge and dull-coloured bird is only observed during the wintermonths, and the race which breeds is distinctly smaller, and—especially on the forehead—more brightly coloured

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