. British birds with their nests and eggs . that collectors. CH- 2 <X z UJUJ cc a The Greenshank. ^5 whose cabinets serve no national—and often no absolutely scientific—purpose,cannot content themselves with specimens from localities abroad, where they wouldhardly be missed, of such eggs and birds as our grand-children may possibly notknow as British breeding species at all. The pestilent British-taken heresycannot be too often denounced : it is a heresy because Britain is in no sense azod-geographical region, or even sub-region. Description of adult in summer (3, Yorkshire, May): bill slig
. British birds with their nests and eggs . that collectors. CH- 2 <X z UJUJ cc a The Greenshank. ^5 whose cabinets serve no national—and often no absolutely scientific—purpose,cannot content themselves with specimens from localities abroad, where they wouldhardly be missed, of such eggs and birds as our grand-children may possibly notknow as British breeding species at all. The pestilent British-taken heresycannot be too often denounced : it is a heresy because Britain is in no sense azod-geographical region, or even sub-region. Description of adult in summer (3, Yorkshire, May): bill slightly turnedupwards, nearly black, lighter at base ; iris umber; crown, neck, and sides of face(except a whitish eyebrow) pale grey, with dark shaft-stripes and whitish edgesto the feathers; back and shoulders of the same grey, coarsely and largely blotchedwith black (in some fine examples almost entirely black) ; wings darker grey-brown, with white shafts to the primaries, and narrow white edges to the shorterprimaries and seconaaries; lower back, rump
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