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Identifier: birdsofbritain00bonh (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, Henry Eeles, 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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y often befound wandering about together, the male on the approachof danger sitting on the topmost sprays of some bush, whilehis family remain concealed in the cover, following himsingly or two or three at a time as he moves on. A secondbrood is generally reared in the season, and in autumn, afterthe moult, a certain amount of wandering takes place,generally in family parties, and at such times we mayfrequently find them in turnip fields, or on the edge ofthick hedgerows, in cultivated country. These wanderings,however, do not generally extend to any great distance fromtheir true home, to which, or to some neighbouring common,they return to spend the winter. The plumage of the young is brown. The full-grownfemale resembles the male except that the colouring is lessbrilliant, and the white markings are not so conspicuous.The male has the head, throat, and back black; a patchon either side of the neck white; tail and wings dark 30 STONECHAT Pratincola nibicolaMale (right). Female (left)
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The Stonechat brown with a conspicuous white j^atch on the wing coverts ;breast and under parts bright rufous, lighter on the abdomen.The female has the upper parts striped with brown and thethroat spotted with black. The white patches are smaller.The young are mottled and spotted with brown all over.Length 5 in.; wing 2*55 in. THE SIBERIAN STONECHAT Pratincola maura, Pallas This is the representative of the preceding species inNorthern Europe and Asia. One example only has been shoton our shores, viz. a male, in Norfolk, on September 2, 1904. It is characterised by the pure white rump, but in otherrespects closely resembles the Common Stonechat. THE REDSTART Ruticilla phoenicurus (Linnaeus) Coming with the rush of our spring warblers, the Eed-start, by its bright plumage, soon makes his arrival manifest.No one can mistake him, as with black head, white fore-head, and red breast he sits on some tree in the garden, oron one of the pollard willows that fringe the stream, histail vibrati

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