File:Illustrations of ornithology (1826) (14771937803).jpg

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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
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der the eyes uponthe auriculars. The back, sides of the neck, and upper parts of the breast,are deep reddish-brown, the feathers edged and dentated with greyish-whiteand bluish-grey: the upper part of the neck is bluish-grey, with the centreof each feather reddish-brown; the middle of the belly and vent silvery-grey, passing into bluish-grey, and minutely freckled with black. The restof the upper parts are wood-brown, barred and spotted with black, andblotched with large spots of yellowish-white. On the secondaries themarkings are much bolder, but the distribution is the same. The quillsare brownish-black, waved with reddish-brown. The length of the tail- ORTYX MACROURA. feathers is five inches and a half: they are broad and rounded, and theupper coverts extend over them a little more than one-third ; the groundcolour of them is reddish-brown, thickly and closely barred obliquely withspots and blotches of black, so much so that at first sight they appearnearly of a uniform colour. .50
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