. A history of British birds . ite, with fine transverse lines at the end of eachfeather; tail light bay, the two middle feathers ash-brown. A young bird of the year, killed near G-eneva in July, 1850,and kindly lent to me by Captain G-. J. Johnson, formerly ofthe Coldstream Guards, has all the upper parts light ash-brown, each feather terminated with a spot of greyish-white. Wing-quills tipped with buffy-white; wing-covertsedged with grey and tipped with buffy-white; tail red; thetwo middle feathers greyish-black; the body beneath some-thing like that of the adult female, but more varied with
. A history of British birds . ite, with fine transverse lines at the end of eachfeather; tail light bay, the two middle feathers ash-brown. A young bird of the year, killed near G-eneva in July, 1850,and kindly lent to me by Captain G-. J. Johnson, formerly ofthe Coldstream Guards, has all the upper parts light ash-brown, each feather terminated with a spot of greyish-white. Wing-quills tipped with buffy-white; wing-covertsedged with grey and tipped with buffy-white; tail red; thetwo middle feathers greyish-black; the body beneath some-thing like that of the adult female, but more varied withwhite, which is again intersected with brown lines. Mr. Blake-Knox has recorded (Zool. p. 2019, the occur-rence in Westmeath, on the 17th of November, 1866, of anexample of the Blue Thrush (Monticola cyanus), which isnow in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society. Thesouthern range of this species, even though it has occurredas a strao-crler in Heligoland, seems to render its enrolment DO O 7 as a British bird X KM 7//;./•; ACCENTOK COLLARIS (Scopoli *). THE ALPINE ACCENTOE. Accentor alpinus f. Accentor, Beclistein j. — Bill strong, broad at the base; the upper mandible overlapping the lower and slightly notched near the tip. Nostrils basal, obliqueand linear. Wings moderate, more or less rounded; the first feather very short,the third generally the longest. Legs strong; the tarsi feathered at the upperend. and covered in front with several broad scales; the miter toe joined at itsbase to the middle toe ; the claw of the hind toe much the longest. By ilif. kindness of the late Dr. Thackeray, T am enabledto give a figure of the Alpine Accentor from the female speci-men killed in what was then the garden of Kings College,Cambridge., on the 22nd of November, 1822, and recordedin the Zoological Journal for 1824 (i. p. 134). At thattime two of these birds had been occasionally scon climbingabout the buildings or feeding on the grass-plots, and wereso tame thai
Size: 1761px × 1418px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1885
