. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . S^Jp;-- ~-»\5a^S5?»«. DrA-rcoij^A* C B>-<ttts o Jsy» m jhf LXXXII.(IReus 0:RUGINOSUS. () Moor Br//ARn, Mar.^h Hahrikh. Montague, in describing, the cg/rs of llie Marsh Harrier,says, that they are perfectly white, without any spot;Latham, on the contrary, in his description of the same spe-cies, that they are spotted
. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . S^Jp;-- ~-»\5a^S5?»«. DrA-rcoij^A* C B>-<ttts o Jsy» m jhf LXXXII.(IReus 0:RUGINOSUS. () Moor Br//ARn, Mar.^h Hahrikh. Montague, in describing, the cg/rs of llie Marsh Harrier,says, that they are perfectly white, without any spot;Latham, on the contrary, in his description of the same spe-cies, that they are spotted with brown/ These assertions, when applied to the particular specimensof the eggs which each of the parties may themselves haveseen, are, I doubt not, perfectly correct. Mr. Selby, how-ever, takes a more general and decided ground, and contra-dicting the statement in the Index Ornithologicus of Latham,says, that they are white, and not spotted. With both of the two former of these descriptions, takingthem, as I have done, to refer only to particular specimens ofthe eggs of the same species, I have no difficulty in agreeing,but regret that I cannot do so with that of Mr. Selby eggs of the Moor Buzzard, although for the most partwhite, are sometimes al
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