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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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art rusty red, but much duller than inthe male. Greater and lesser wing coverts, primaries, andsecondaries, greyish brown, margined with reddish; tail, rustyred, but much duller thm in the male, as are the upper tailcoverts; under tail overts, paler. Very old females are saidto approximate to tlie colour of the male. In the young male of the year the white forehead iswanting; neck in front, variegated with white; the throathas the black intermixed with white feathers, as is tlv casewith the orange ou the brca.:)t; breast, mo tiled with yellowLsh 44 EEDSTABT. and duslrj brown; back, pale reddish brown, tinged with palegrey on each feather. Greater and lesser wing coverts, broadlyedged with pale brown; tail and tail coverts, rufous. At theend of the summer, the edges of the feathers being worn,the back becomes more grey, the black and the red lessedyed, and the wings and tail lighter. A variety of a white colour was shot by Martin Curtler,Esq., of Bevere House, Worcester, in June, 1849.
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45 BLACKSTART. BLACir REDSTAET. BLACK RED-TAIL. TITHT8 REDSTART. Sylvia Tithys, Jenyi^S. * Gibraltariensis, Latham. Phcenicura Tithys, GouLD. SsLliY. Ficedula Tithys, Eyton.Mot a cilia atrata^ Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Tithys- This species is rather common in the southern parts ofEurope, G-ermany, Thuringia, France, Greece, Spain, Switzer-land, and Italy, but very rare in the more northern parts,in Sweden, namely, and also in Holland, the character of thelatter country being of couise unsuited to its Alpine habits—the very Antipodes of them. The Prince of Musignanoobtained one at sea in the spring of 1828, four hundred milesto the west of Africa, durmg a gale from the eastward: itwas caught, together with some other small birds, in therigging of the ship. The Blackstart has been met with alsoin Asia. This very neat and elegant bird, first made known as aBritish one by Mr. Gould, is but of rare occurrence also,generally speaking, in this country. I am much obliged andindebted to John G

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