. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . runs over the eye. The sides of thehead, immediately above this line, are green; abovewhich, on each side, is a narrow list of black feathers;and on the crown of the head, above these blacklists, is a little tuft or crest of soft silky feathers: inthe male, of a bright orange colour; in the female,yellow. The bird has a power of erecting this crestat will; and, also, of hiding it entirely by contract-i
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . runs over the eye. The sides of thehead, immediately above this line, are green; abovewhich, on each side, is a narrow list of black feathers;and on the crown of the head, above these blacklists, is a little tuft or crest of soft silky feathers: inthe male, of a bright orange colour; in the female,yellow. The bird has a power of erecting this crestat will; and, also, of hiding it entirely by contract-ing the skin of the crown, and drawing together thetwo black lists, between which the crest is back is green, with a shade of olive; the quillsand tail feathers are dusky, with green edges; thefirst row of coverts are green, with tips of a pale bufF-colour; the quills are black near the root, whichmake a remarkably black spot on the wing. One ortwo of the last quills have their-outer borders white inthe male bird ; the throat, breast, and belly, are of apale buff or cream-colour; the legs and feet dusky. The fly is the Musca Demano, found in May andJune, about stagnant
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