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Identifier: birdnotes07fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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which is so cunningly blended with the surround-ing matter as to be very difficult to find. Its mode of progress on the ground consists ofvery rapid and prodiguous hops. It feeds almost entirely on insects. Description :. Upper surface olive brown ; forehead, ear-coverts, sides of thethighs and tail coverts rusty-chestnut ; lores greyish white ; nioustachial stripe dusky-black ; undersurface greyish-white, lightly washed on the breast with rusty-chestnut ; billbright horn colour; legs and feet brownish flesh colour.—Ed.) * * * The Slatey-headed Scimitar Babbler.1 am fortunate in possessing a true pair. They do not possess the longcurved beak of Rusty, but their head markings greatly resemble those ofa Bunting. In the quickness of their movements, the sharp dart, thebrightness of their eye and perky call, they greatly resemble the PekinRobin, only they are a little larger. Rusty can move, but the Slatey-headed are, to use a vulgar expression, like greased lightning. Very Bird Notes,
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Drawn f torn life by H. Goodchild.THE RUSTY-CHEEKED SCIMITAR BABBLER.Pomatorhinus erythrogenys. Bird Notes.

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