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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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left behind the eye; chin and throat,greyish white; breast, dark grey, paler in winter; back, darkgrey, paler in winter. 40 WHISKERED TEEN. The wings have the first quill feather the longest; greaterand lesser wing coverts, dark grey, paler in winter; of theprimaries the first is leaden grey on the outer web and onthe inner portion of the inner weh, the remainder of thelatter white; the others paler grey; secondaries, grey also,but paler; greater and lesser under wing coverts, white.Tail, dark grey, lighter in winter; upper tail coverts, darkgrey, paler in winter; under tail coverts, white. Legs andtoes, red; webs, red, and deeply indented. In the young bird of the year, the bill is red at the base,the remainder brown. Head on the crown, neck on theback, and nape, varied with brown and greyish black; back,brown, the feathers edged and tipped with dull yellowishred; secondaries, brown. Tail, blackish grey, tipped withwhite. Legs and toes, dull yellowish red; webs, dull yel-lowish red.
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4X GULL-BILLED TERN sterna Anglica, Montagu. Bewick. Pi.kming. Selby. Jkjsyns. Eyton. Gould. Sterna— ? Anglica—Anglican—English. Montagu appears to have been the first to distinguish this*soi-disaiit Anglican species, less peculiar to England than toany other of the countries where it is known, and two others,as will have been seen, do honour by their names to thediscrimination of Enghsh naturalists. It inhabits Europe, Asia, and Africa, occurring in Hungary,Italy, Turkey, France, Jutland, Holland, Egypt, Nubia, India,the Isles of Sunda, Java, the L^nited States in North, andthe Brazils in South America. They breed in Denmark in the Sylt marshes. In the county of Norfolk, one of these Terns was shot atYarmouth, on the Slat, of July, 1849, and two others, a pairof adult birds, male and female, at the same place on the1st. of September that year; one the 24th. of May, 1850, andone the beginning of July, 1851. In Yorkshire, one wascaptured near Leeds, in the West Riding, in July, 1

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