. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 43^ THE LONG-TAILED '^mi p-fi'il- tf^ ^: ill: 1 '^''^ I* â .â i ' *. I. â '1 4: life 1'5- me, that they are frequent in the woods of Bou- logne. Laftly, fome maintain that they conti- nue through the winter; others, that they mi- grate ; and others, that they arrive later than the other titmice, and have therefore been called /now titmice, Thefe oppofite ftatements may be reconciled, by fuppofmg, what is at the fame time very probaWe,. that thefe birds vary
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 43^ THE LONG-TAILED '^mi p-fi'il- tf^ ^: ill: 1 '^''^ I* â .â i ' *. I. â '1 4: life 1'5- me, that they are frequent in the woods of Bou- logne. Laftly, fome maintain that they conti- nue through the winter; others, that they mi- grate ; and others, that they arrive later than the other titmice, and have therefore been called /now titmice, Thefe oppofite ftatements may be reconciled, by fuppofmg, what is at the fame time very probaWe,. that thefe birds vary their range c-ccording to circumftances j that they remain when their fituation is com- fortable, and change when they want a better; that they inhabit the mountain or the vale, the ^ank or the marfh, the foreft or the vineyard, or wherever they can enjoy convenience and fubfiftence. They are feldom caught in traps, and their flefli is unpleafant food. Their feathers are loofe, and refembleavery long down; they have a fort of black eyebrows, and the upper eyelids of an orange yellow, but this colour is hardly vifible in dried fubjeds; the upper fide of the head, the throat, and all the under fide of the body, white, fliadcd with blackifh on the breaft, and fometimes tinged with red on the belly, the loins, and under the tail: the back of the neck is black, whence| rifes a bar of the fame colour, which ftretches j tlirough the whole of the upper part of the I body between two broad bars of baftard red; I , i . the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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