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Title: Ornithological miscellany
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Rowley, George Dawson, 1822-1878 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Walther, T., lithographer Allen, Edgar W., lithographer Smith, J., lithographer Erxleben, J., lithographer Hanhart, Michael, printer of plates Hanhart, N, printer of plates Chase, Robert William, former owner. DSI Mackintosh, Duncan Robert, former owner. DSI Mintern Bros., printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rial truth should be mostsacred, which it frequently is not!), the Herons had to be put in after-wards : though they were there, they could not be photographed. It isobservable how late these nests of young Herons were. In a large wood,however, it is not easy to photograph the nests ; standing out in a park, theycould be better seen. In conclusion, if an ornithologist w^ere to make out a list of birdsprominent in classical or modern superstition, both as respects water andland (such as, notably, the Kingfisher and the Vulturef in the one, and thePetrel or the Magpie in the other), he would perhaps enumerate the Heronin both. * This number is founded on an estimate in an article published in the Times/ Thursday,August 30, 1877, where it is stated that from London alone at least 35,000 pickers start, and thatKent and Sussex employ a quarter of a million. The London, Chatham, and Dover Company takesthese people at reduced fares. t Romulus and Remus. VOL. III. ^ ORNITHOLOGICAL MiSCiiLLAMY
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J.GXeulemans lith. Hainliart imp CHLORyElTAS SUBVINACEA, (La.wr&nc>&)^ CHLORCENAS SUBYINACEA. Lawrence. By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. The following is from A Catalogue of the Birds of Costa Rica, by GeorgeN. Lawrence, p. 135 (reprinted from the Annals of the Lyceum of NaturalHistory in New York, vol. ix. April 1868) :— 448. Chlorcenas suBViNACEA, sp. n. Male. Head, neck, and under plumage light purplish vinaceous, darkeron the abdomen and sides; the throat paler, and of a fulvous tinge; back,wing-coverts, and rump brownish cinnamon; tail of a fine dark brown,slightly purplish, except the two central feathers, which are rather lighterin colour and incline to olivaceous brown; the upper tail-coverts are of thesame colour as the central tail-feathers; the quills are dark brown, theprimaries blackish on the outer webs, which are narrowly margined withpale cinnamon, the inner webs of the quill-feathers are broadly marked withdull pale cinnamon to near their ends ; the under wing-covert

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