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Identifier: ornithologicalmi03rowl (find matches)
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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ad some doubts as to the identity of my skin ; it might possiblybe Leptoptila cerviniventris, Sclater and Salvin ; cf. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 59, wherethose ornithologists have a joint article; in it they say, under the head of L. CERVINIVENTRIS, Sp. UOV.,• Sim. L. cassini, sed pectore dilutiore et vinaceo tincto et ventre smnmo saturate cervino differt. The two species appear to run rather close. The authors say, in theabove article, that they are acquainted with eight species of the genusLeptoptila, which, they state, may be easily distinguished from all othergenera of Columhidce (except Peristerd) by the peculiar acumination of theouter primary. All of them have the under wing-coverts deep cinnamomeousor chestnut, and the outer tail-feathers more or less terminated with white. In the Nomenclator Avium Neotropicalium (1873), by the same twoornithologists (pp. 133, 134), we find the eight species have become eleven. The Plate represents the bird the size of life. CO < o 3o o n: !sPCo
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/^if\^ -^ COTYLE RIPARIA. (The Sand-Martin.)By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. Where should we expect to find the Sand-Martin, if not at Sandy.? Thereare, however, not a great many; the publicity of the place and the want ofprotection to the birds, together with the constant excavation going on forrailway purposes, keep the numbers down. The lithograph is from a photograph taken on the spot, for this work,on the 27th of June, 1877. The colony established itself in 1877; and all the holes are fresh. Thebirds are quite tame, and almost touch the men when digging, or settle uponthem. A pair take about a week to make a nest in the sand, which is hereabout eighteen feet deep. This railway-station has long been famous forSand-Martins. When the ea-^s have been incubated a little while, the fleas abound tosuch an extent that I have seen them fall out like rain. White, of Selborne,mistook this insect for the common bed-flea (^Pulex irritans); whereas,according to Mr. Hartings note to his edition of the Hist

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