. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. â¢LEMOUSE. VARIETIES OF THE COLEMOUSE. 411 fo that the white always contrails, and the black extends fo much farther: it gains ftill more in the fourth and fifth quill, which have no white at all, but are tipt with afli-gray, as ii:\ the preceding; the quills of the wings are blackifh; the middle ones bordered with afli- gray; the great ones with dirty gray: each wing has a longitudinal, or rather a yellowifli white ftreak: the throat is white, and alfo the anterior m
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. â¢LEMOUSE. VARIETIES OF THE COLEMOUSE. 411 fo that the white always contrails, and the black extends fo much farther: it gains ftill more in the fourth and fifth quill, which have no white at all, but are tipt with afli-gray, as ii:\ the preceding; the quills of the wings are blackifh; the middle ones bordered with afli- gray; the great ones with dirty gray: each wing has a longitudinal, or rather a yellowifli white ftreak: the throat is white, and alfo the anterior margin of the wing; the fore part of the neck and all the lower part light rufous: the inferior coverts of the wings, the neareft the body, are rufty, the fucceeding black, and the longeft white: the upper mandible is black, except the ridge, which is whitifli, and fo is the lower mandible: laftly, the legs are yellowifli brown. Total length, five inches one third; the bill, fix lines and a half j the tar/us^ eight lines; the hind toe as long and thicker than the mid one, and its nail the flrong- eft; the alar extent, feven inches and three quarters; the tail eighteen lines, confiding of twelve quills, rather unequal, and fliorter in, the middle; it exceeds the wings ten 1 KM-tir!:-, 1 â â¢â '»'i T IT I! c%. 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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