File:Illustrations of ornithology (1826) (14565369909).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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bill: the forehead, the lower parts of the cheeks, in a line fromthe under mandible, and a narrow circle round the eyes, are deep black :the other parts of the head, the neck and back, the greater wing-coverts,rump, breast and belly, are ash-grey, paler on the under parts, and on thevent almost inclining to white: the shoulders, quills, and secondary fea-thers, are black, the wings are long in proportion : the small feather in-serted between the first and second quill is of more than ordinary length, TITYRA PERSONATA. and is stiff, sharp-pointed, and falciform : the tail is composed of twelvefeathers, equal at the end, and in colouring it nearly resembles that of ourcommon Wheat-ear (Sawicola cenanthe): the shafts of the feathers are black,the tip for two-eighths of an inch yellowish-white, beyond which it isblack for nearly an inch, or until it is hid by the upper coverts; the re-maining part of the base is bluish-white: the tarsi and feet are strong, andof a deep bluish-black. 2.5.
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