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Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches)
Title: British birds
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ts, grouse, Opisthocomus, &c.).Order xiii. Tinamidae (tinamous).Order xiv. FuUcariae (rails, coots).Order xv. Alectorides (cranes, bustards, Cariama, &c.).Order xvi. Limicolae (plovers, snipe, knots, &c.).Order xvii. G a vise (gulls, skuas).Order xviii. Pygopodes (auks, divers, grebes).Order xix. Sphenisciformes (penguins).Order xx. Tubinares (petrels, albatross).Order xxi. Psittaci (parrots). It will be noticed that, out of these twenty-one groups into which we may divide the Neornithes Carinatae of Gadow, only threeare not represented in Great Britain, viz. the Sphenisciformes,Psittaci, and Tinamiformes. So that the student of bird anatomy inthis country has plenty of chance of making himself acquaintedwith the main outlines of structure of the entire class of livingbirds. Out of the thirty-two minor divisions of these birds, nofewer than twenty-one are to be met with in these islands ; and ofthose that are not, some are quite easy to get hold of—a parrot, forinstanco.
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Missel-Thrush, or Stormcock. Turdus viscivorus. Upper parts ash-brown; under parts white, faintly tinged withyellow, marked with numerous black spots; under wing-covertswhite; three lateral tail feathers tipped with greyish white.Length, eleven inches. There are six British thrushes. Of these the missel-thrush andblackbird are residents throughout the year ; the song-thrush is alsofound with us at all seasons, and is a winter songster, but manybirds migrate; the ring-ouzel is a summer visitor; the red-wingand fieldfare are winter visitors. The missel or mistletoe thrush, or stormcock, is the largest,exceeding the fieldfare, which comes next in size, by at least aninch in length and two inches in spread of wings. This speciespossesses in a marked degree all the characters that everywheredistinguish the true thrushes, which are world-wide in their ranga.Theirs is a modest colouring:—olive-brown above, paler and spottedbelow ; a loud and varied song, and harsh cry ; a statuesque figure

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