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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

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s brown; all the others tippedwith white, widest on the side feathers, the outer web of theside one white; underneath it is blackish brown, tipped withwhite; under tail coverts, white. Legs and toes, carmine red—the latter underneath dull yellowish; claws, blackish brown. The female is less in size, and lighter-coloured. The young, at first covered with yellow down, have, theirfirst year, the bill dark brown; iris, dusky, till they are abouthalf a year old, then it becomes by degrees yellow and orange:the red round the eye appears the second year; they assumealso the black on the side of the neck the second year. Breaston the sides, bluish grey; back, darker brown than the neckin front; greater and lesser wing coverts, tipped with buffwhite; primaries, slightly tinged on their outer edges withrufous. Tail, brown, the lateral feathers with their outer webs,and the next two with their ends white; underneath it isblackish brown; under tail coverts, whitish. Legs, toes, andclaws, brown.
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PASSENGER PIGEON. 175 PASSEXGETl PIGEOX. Cnlumha migratoria, FLEMING. YarRELL. Ectopistts migratorius, Selby. Columba—A Pigeon. Mlgratoria—MigrsLtory. This Pigeon, far-famed on account of its extraordinarynumbers, is a native of North America, from north to south.Captain Sir John Ross, R. N., mentions one which flew onboard the Victory in Baffins Bay, during a storm, in the73 J degree of latitude, on the 31st. of July, 1829. It hasbeen taken also in Europe, in Russia and Norway; and onewas shot, while perched on a wall near a dove-cote, at West-hall, in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, Scotland, on the31st. of December, 1825. The Passenger Pigeon, as imported by its name, is ofmigratory habits in its native country. These birds may be kept in confinement, and a pair builtand hatched their young in the menagerie of the ZoologicalSociety in the year 1833, and another pair about the sametime in that of Lord Derby, at Knowsley, in Lancashire. Intheir native regions their numbers see

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