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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s,white, with a few oval-shaped greyish black spots. The foiu*middle feathers of the tail are black, the two next havewhite marks at the tip, the fourth is white, black at thebase and tip; the fifth white, with five black bars; the outerblack, with a white spot near the tip; underneath it is dullblack and yellowish white; upper tail coverts, black; undertail coverts, spotted with dusky. Legs, lead-coloured, small,and not robust; they are feathered two thirds of their lengthdown in front, and the remaining part is scaled; toes, lead-colour, yellowish beneath; claws, lead-coloured, black at thetips, short, weak, and dull. The female wants the red on the head, which is yellowishwhite, and there is more white on the side of the head; theblack of her plumage is more dull than in the male, and thewhite less puj*e. In the young bird, the red on the head, which is assumedin the autumn, is at first interspersed with white; the irischesnut; the breast light chocolate-colour, with dusky streaks.
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HAIRY VYOODFECKEB. 87 IIAIRY WOODPECKER. Picus viUosus, Ltnn^-us. Gmelin. Picus—A bird that makes holes in trees, supposed to be theWoodpecker. Villosus—Hairv. I AM here also indebted to W. F. W. Bird, Esq., for acareful collection of the different accounts of this species asa British bird. Dr. Lathams is as follows:—This has beenmet mth in England, but I have only heard of two or threeinstances of the circumstance; one, in particular, communicatedby the late Mr. Bolton, of Stannary, near Halifax, Yorkshire,of a pair being shot among the old trees in the park of SirGeorge Armitage, Baronet, at Kirklees Hall, where they nodoubt had been bred, but the wood being cut down the suc-ceeding winter, the rest forsook the ground, and could notbe traced further. The above pair were presented to the lateDuchess Dowager of Portland, in whose collection I saw themmany years since. These bii-ds answered to the general des-cription in every particular, except in not having the redbar across th

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