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Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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d three or four times and once in the Orkneys, usuallyin spring, probably wind-drifted westward when on migration.It is a medium-sized short-tailed bird, both in appearance andhabits more suggestive of a Wheatear than a Thrush. Theadult male, with his slate-blue head, throat and upper back,and white band across the lower back, contrasting with richchestnut under parts and tail, is not likely to be confused withany other species, but the female is a browner bird barred withblack and grey, and her lower back is mottled with buff. Herthroat is white and the under parts buff with brown markings.Young birds are mottled with brown and slate, and have barson the under parts. Length, 8 ins. Wing, 47 ins. Tarsus, i in. Redstart. Phoenicurus phienicurus (Linn.). In most parts of Britain the Redstart (Plate 87) is a summerresident, but in Ireland it is exceedingly local; it is also a birdof passage between the northern part of its European range andits winter quarters in north Africa m^f^^:^^^^^
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