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Identifier: historybirdsEurIIBree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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aris merchants ten eggs of this bird: six of them likethe drawing, three darker, and one lighter. Greatdiameter nineteen to twenty-one millemetres, smalldiameter fourteen or fifteen. The male bird sent me by M. E. Verreaux has allthe upper parts of the body a rich chesnut brown,darkest on the wing primaries and the tail. The throatis white, shading ofi to ash grey on the belly and toolive brown on the flanks and under tail coverts, thelatter being tipped with white. The wings are short. 96 CETTls WARBLER, only just covering tlie rump. Beak and feet lightbrown; iris nut brown. The female has the colours slightly paler than themale, but they are difficult to distinguish, except bysize. Young before the first moult are, according toDegland, of a darker brown than the adult. My figure is from specimens sent me by M. E.Verreaux. Figured also by Bufibn, pi. enl. 655, underthe name of Bouscarle de Provence; M. Roux, Ornith.Prov., pi. 212; Z. Gerbe, Mag. de Zool., 1840, pi. 21;Gould, B. of E.
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:. J V V vr 97 mSECTIVOR^. Family SYLVIADJE. Genus Sylvia. (Latham.) EIYER WAEBLEE. Sylvia Jluviatilis. Sylvia fiuviatilis, Locustella Salicaria Reverain Flnviatile,Fluss HolirSanger, Meyee and Wolff, Taschdes Dents, (1810,) tome i,p. 229. Naumann; tome iii, 649. Temminck; Man. (1820.) Vieillot; Diet., 1817. ScHiNZ; Europ.Faun, (1840.) MtJHLE; 1856. Gould; B. of E., 1836. BONAPAETE; 1838. Z. Geebe; Diet., 1848.Degland; 1849.Keeseeling and Blasius; 1840.ScHLEGEL; E-evue, 1844.Of the Feench.Of the Geemans. Specific Characters.—Above unicolorous olive brown, darker onthe wings; under tail coverts light rust grey, with, white at theend; first primary the longest; wings reach to half the length ofthe tail. 98 RIVER WARBLER. Length, of a male sent me by M. E. Verreaux, sis inclies; car-pus to tip tliree inches; tail two inches and one-fifth; tarsn.s nine-tenths of an inch; beak seven-tenths of an inch. The River Warbler, whicli is one of tlie finest speciesin tlie family, is found princip

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