File:Twenty-five photographs (printed in platinotype) (1895) (14728181966).jpg

Identifier: Twentyfivephoto00Webs (find matches)
Title: Twenty-five photographs (printed in platinotype)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Webster, G. Watmough Newstead, Robert, 1859-1947 Grosvenor Museum (Chester, Cheshire)
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: Chester: (Grosvenor Museum)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
The House-Martin ( Ckelidon urbica) LlNKdSUS. MALE, FEMALE, NEST, AND EGGS. (JT~*HIS species is easily recognised by its conspicuous white rump, which isclearly seen when the bird is flying, and which acts as a capital recognitionmark, and readily separates it from the other British Hirundinidce. The nest, composed of mud lined with a little grass and feathers, isfixed to the wall beneath some projecting masonry. The female is carrying afeather in her beak; her partner is clinging to the side of the nest. The purewhite eggs cannot be shown owing to the depth of the nest. The brickwork and stone coping are both reproductions—the former incoloured plaster, the other in papier mache. Presented by Mr. R. Newstead, Senr.
Text Appearing After Image:
The Chaffinch (Fringilla ccelebs) LlNNiBUS. MALE, FEMALE, NEST, AND EGGS. TV ^ the t0P of the elder stump on the right is a beautiful nest of this species,1 containing five eggs. The site chosen for the nest is certainly an abnormal one, but nevertheless of great interest; and although quite exposed itis not by any means easy to see. In the first place the nest is almost of thesame diameter as the main stem; the colour, too, harmonises very well, and, as ifto imitate the surroundings more closely, the birds have carefully decorated theoutside with numerous fragments of the rotten wood from the stump. The nestis the natural distance from the ground; in the original habitat there wasanother stump in close proximity and a little to the right of it, but it affordedlittle or no protection, and could not be included here. The upper specimen is the male. Presented by Dr. H. Dobie and Mr. R. Newstead, Senr.

Note About Images