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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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, dusky brown. Female; iris, dark brown, over it is a yellowish white line;chin and throat, on the upper part, white, bounded by acrescent-shaped patch of dull blue mixed with some black,the horns of the crescent directed upwards; this is followedby pale reddish brown, and lowier down by dull white, whichalso prevails on the sides. Tail, not so bright as in themale. Some old females almost equal the male in the builliancyof their colors. The 3^oung are at first brown, mottled with a paler shade.Head, crown, neck on the back, and nape, du^iky, with ovalspots of reddish brown along the shafts of the feathers; chin,the same. The throat in the male has a large pale brownpatch, indicative of the future white one; breast, dusky, withoval spots of reddish brown along the shafts. Under tailcoverts, whitish. The young male resembles the adult female, the blue colouradvancing by degrees. Individuals vary very considerably in colour, the tints beingmore or less bright, no doubt according to age.
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39 REDSTART. RED TAIL. FIRE-TAIL. BEA2<-TAIL. FIEET BEAX-TAIL. Suha Phoenicurvs, Latham. Pennant. Phij-.tiicur I ruholla^ Selby Swainsun. Rutioll I Fhce/lir7jruS, 1^1 ACGILLIVKAY. MoUcilla Fhcenicurus, Montagu. Sylvia. Sylvi—A wood. Phoenicurus. PAcenzx—Purple—red. Oura—A tail. This is an exceedingly pretty bird, a^id one which it isalways inierestins^ to watch. As it flirts out a little wayfrom its accustomed cover, and as suddenly returns to it, youcannot help looking for its re-appearance with interest, eventhough in the constant habit of thus making its transientacquaintance. It is a lively and graceful species, an^l, though not common,yet is not uncommon, in the districts throughout which itoccurs. It frequents the most retired and the most sequesteredscenes, and is to be seen in close propinquity to the inhabitedhouse in the country, as well as in the wild and retireddingle, among the ivy-clad rocks of the overhanoing inlandclift*, and by the margin of the wood and t

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