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Identifier: birdsEuropeIIIGoul (find matches)
Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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st, with a lateral opening into the internal chamber. It is suspended at the extremity of adrooping branch of a willow or any similar tree overhanging the water. The eggs are six in number, of apure white, marked with a few red blotches. The sexes in the adult state offer but little difference in the colour of their plumage; the markings of thefemale, particularly the black band across the face, are however more obscure, and the young, besides beingof a lighter colour, want the black mark entirely. The plumage of the adult male is as follows : a black band extends across the forehead, encircles the eyes,and spreads over the ear-coverts ; top of the head light grey; throat lighter ; the upper surface chestnutbrown, more intense on the middle of the back, fading off to buff; breast chestnut, becoming lighter as itspreads over the abdomen ; wings and tail brownish black, each feather having a lighter margin. Our Plate represents a pair of these birds, and their nest, of the natural size.
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iTAMK CHATTBombycivora garrula Dnwmjrom, life auug. orv^tcm^ 2y/*i! SoxM. Genus BOMBYCIVORA, Temm. Gen. Char. Beak short, straight, elevated, the upper mandible slightly curved towards itsextremity and furnished with a very marked tooth. Nostrils basal, ovoid, open, concealedby short stiff hairs directed forward. Toes, three before and one behind, the external andmiddle toes united. Wings moderate, the first and second quill-feathers equal and longest. WAXEN CHATTERER. JBombycivora garrula, Temm,Le Grand Jaseur. The birds composing the genus Bombi/civora, as restricted by M. Temminck, are by no means numerous,three species only having- as yet, we believe, been discovered. The present beautiful example, which is thelargest, and may be considered the most typical of the genus, is the only one Europe affords us ; it is also tobe found in the northern regions of America, although much less common than the smaller allied speciespeculiar to that Continent. The rare and uncertain visits of t

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