File:Illustrations of ornithology (1826) (14751747662).jpg

Identifier: illustrationsofo01jard (find matches)
Title: Illustrations of ornithology
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Jardine, William, 1800-1874 Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Mitford, R. C. W. (Reginald Colville William), b. 1839, ill Hewitt, Eleanor G., donor. DSI Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI Lenox Library, former owner. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Arsenic compounds
Publisher: Edinburgh : Published by W.H. Lizars London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and S. Highley Dublin : W. Curry Junr. & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ish-white) prevailing as in theyoung and same sex of several of the bright coloured birds of New Hol-land, the Sericulus and Ptilonorhynchus, forming a marked contrast with thesplendid colouring of the males. The general colour of the upper parts ofthe female of our species is a greenish wood-brown. From the upper partof the eye a white streak extends for nearly an inch upon the side of theneck. The feathers forming the wings are not so broad and rounded asin the male, and the edges of the quills and secondaries are light chesnut-red. The tail is the same colour with the upper parts, paler underneath,and the two centre feathers are equal in length with the others. The un-der parts are entirely yellowish-white, on the throat nearly pure white,each feather on the breast is marked with an oval line or black ring roundthe feather, about one-eighth of an inch from the edge. On the belly andvent they are barred with the same colour. Our figures represent the natural size of the species. v.)
Text Appearing After Image:
■ *?/;/////<////.) / r.////////.i. V5

Note About Images