. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. THE 'B U L F I N C H. 36^ and other parts of the male. I have feen a fe- male however, which had the laft of the Vving- quiils edged with red, and which had no white on the outermoft of thofe of the tail. adds, that the tip of the tongue is divided into fmall filaments ; but I have always found it quite entire in the male, and fliaped like a very Ihort tooth-pick. In many young Bulfinches which I have cbferved about the end of June, the fore-head was light r
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. THE 'B U L F I N C H. 36^ and other parts of the male. I have feen a fe- male however, which had the laft of the Vving- quiils edged with red, and which had no white on the outermoft of thofe of the tail. adds, that the tip of the tongue is divided into fmall filaments ; but I have always found it quite entire in the male, and fliaped like a very Ihort tooth-pick. In many young Bulfinches which I have cbferved about the end of June, the fore-head was light rufous, the fore-part of the nefck and breaft rufty-brown ; the belly and the inferior coverts of the tail fulvous, which extends and grows more dilute on the fide; the under-parc of the body, more or lefs duflcy ; the white ray over the wing deeply tinged with rufty ; the rump white of different fliades.—But it is ob- vious that confiderable diverfities will occur. Total length fix inches; the bill five lines, thick and forked; Kramer remarks, that the two mandibles are moveable, as in the Finches and Buntings; the alar extent nine inches and one-fourth; the tail tv^o inches and one-third, fomewhat forked, (but not always in the females,) confiding of twelve quills ; the outer-toe joined by its firft phalatjx to the mid-toe; the hind-nail ftrongcr and more hooked than the reft. The dimenfions of the female when dinc<fl:cd were as follows:—inteftinil tube eighteen incihes; veftiges of a ccecum; the eefophagus two inches VOL. IV, X and :'^\\if. 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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