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Title: Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Meyer, H. L. (Henry Leonard), d. 1864 Meyer, H. L. (Henry Leonard), d. 1864. Illustrations of British birds Rutter, Daniel, former owner. DSI Rolle, Mark, former owner. DSI S. & J. Bentley, Wilson & Fley, printer S. & J. Bentley and Henry Fley, printer
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds Taxidermists Birds
Publisher: London : G.W. Nickisson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eleven lines and a half; from the gape to the tip, one inchone line and a half. Tarsus two inches three lines ; quill-feathers of the tail nine inches ; the wing, from the carpus tothe tip, thirteen inches three lines ; the inner and hinderclaws eight lines. The tail extends two inches beyondthe tips of the closed wings. The male measures in entirelength about eighteen inches and a half, and weighs thirteenounces. The female, or Ringtail, exceeds the male considerably in 100 FALCONIDE. weight and dimensions, being twenty inches in entire length,and eighteen ounces in weight. Her beak measures one inchtwo lines, and from the gape one inch four lines; the tarsusthree inches; the tail-feathers nine inches six lines; the wing,from carpus to tip, fifteen inches; and the inner and hinderclaws measure ten lines. In this species the third and fourth quill-feathers are thelongest, and are nearly equal in length, and the first is shorterthan the sixth. The egg No. 19 belongs to the Hen Harrier.
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ft. 20. Montagus harrier. 101 RAPTORES. FALCONIDM. PLATE XX. MONTAGUS HARRIER. Circus Montagui. (Yarrell.) In size, general appearance, and habits this species somuch resembles the Hen Harrier, the subject of the precedingplate, that the circumstance of the one having so long re-mained undistinguished from the other is hardly a subjectof surprise; and credit is the more due to the acute observa-tion of our before-mentioned countryman, Montagu, for dis-criminating between them. The differences are, however,when pointed out, sufficiently obvious, and such as will en-able an observer acquainted with the subject to decide readilyto which species any specimen he meets with should be re-ferred. The differences consist in relative proportions andin weight, as much as in the colours of the plumage; andit may be observed, on referring to the dimensions specifiedof the males of the two species, that, although MontagusHarrier is smaller than the Hen Harrier in all other measure-ments, it equals

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