. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . , are superior to goosequills for writing, provided the fingers of the person using thembe sufficiently flexible and delicate to adapt themselves to soslender an instrument. YouxG.—The young are at first nearly bare, and of a black-ish colour. When fledged, they are similar to the old birds,but with much less gloss on their plumage, and having
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . , are superior to goosequills for writing, provided the fingers of the person using thembe sufficiently flexible and delicate to adapt themselves to soslender an instrument. YouxG.—The young are at first nearly bare, and of a black-ish colour. When fledged, they are similar to the old birds,but with much less gloss on their plumage, and having thisremarkable difference, that the fore part of the head is feathered,and the nostrils and base of the bill concealed by straight andstiff narrow feathers, as in other crows. It is only after theyhave been abroad for some weeks that these parts begin to beabraded. In some rookeries, especially those of small extent, in openplaces, both young and old fly off in June, while in othersthey remain all the year. In the former case, they generallyreturn for some days in autumn, and agajn absent themselvesuntil spring. I have not, however, been able to discover thecauses of these apparent anomalies. 552 CORVUS MONEDULA. THE JACKDAW. DAW. KAE. Corvus Monedula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 156. Corvus Monedula. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 154. Jackdaw. Mont. Orn. Diet. Choucas. Corvus Monedula. Temm. Man. dOrn. L IIL Jackdaw. Corvus Monedula. Selb. Illustr. I. 356. Corvus Monedula. Jackdaw. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 147. Of the adult male and female^ the plumage greyish-hlack^ thehind-neck light grey^ the head anteriorly glossed with blue^ theprimary quills^ alula^ and tail with green^ the secondary quillswith purple ; the hill rather shorter than the head^ subcorneal. Male.—In form the Jackdaw is more compact, and in ac-tion more lively, than any other British bird of the genus. Itis about the size of the domestic pigeon, with the body ovate,the neck rather short, the head large, the feet, wings
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