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Identifier: colouredillustra21844meye (find matches)
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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Jlava of our countrymanRay, who first described it, but not the M. jlava of theContinent. The nest of the Yellow Wagtail is usually built uponthe ground, sometimes placed a little above it in an osierstump, or similar elevation. It is found in various locali-ties, in open situations of meadow or moorland, and wehave also met with it in islands upon the Thames occu-pied as osier grounds, in which places the species appearsto abound. The nest is constructed of fine dry grass andfibrous roots, lined with the hair of horses and cows. Oneof our specimens is composed almost entirely of greenmoss, with a few tufts of grass outside, and one or twolong horsehairs within. The eggs are usually of a long,oval form, about eight lines and a half long: the groundcolour greenish-white, thickly freckled over with ash-greyand pale rufous-brown. Some specimens are nearly plainrich ochre, slightly marbled ; such are usually smaller in size. The egg figured 87 is that of the Yellow Wagtail of Ray. PI.88.
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WHITE WAGTAIL. 221 INSESSORES. MOTACILLIDM. DENTIROSTRES. PLATE LXXXVIII. WHITE WAGTAIL. Motacilla lotor. (Rennie.) While enumerating the several kinds of Wagtails that arefound in this country, we mentioned, in page 204, that afifth species, new to British ornithology, had recently beenadded to the list. This species is the Motacilla alba ofLinn., the common Black and White Wagtail of theContinent of Europe. Although long suspected to inhabitthis country, the existence of the species in England was notascertained until Mr. Bond of Kingsbury, in May 1841,procured some specimens on the banks of a reservoir nearthat place. Since that time, many individuals have beenobserved and procured. We ourselves suspected, many yearsago, that more than one species of Pied Wagtail inhabitedthis country, having observed that those which frequentedwalls, parapets, and roofs of barns, etc., and road-sides inhigh situations, differed in appearance from such as arecommonly seen by the river-side. In purs

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