. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . , seems to co-incide. The adult female, of which we have also examined a spe-cimen, through the kindness of W. Yarrell, Esq., has noneof the crimson tints that so much beautify the male, but isstill a very handsome bird. Her head, nape, and ear-coverts, are bright honey-yellow, rump and upper tail-co-verts the same ; her chin is white, and all the rest of herupper and under plumage clear grey : her wings are dusky,bordered in a manner similar to those of the male withwhite : her tail is dusky, narrowly bordered with grey: legsand beak
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . , seems to co-incide. The adult female, of which we have also examined a spe-cimen, through the kindness of W. Yarrell, Esq., has noneof the crimson tints that so much beautify the male, but isstill a very handsome bird. Her head, nape, and ear-coverts, are bright honey-yellow, rump and upper tail-co-verts the same ; her chin is white, and all the rest of herupper and under plumage clear grey : her wings are dusky,bordered in a manner similar to those of the male withwhite : her tail is dusky, narrowly bordered with grey: legsand beak as in the male. This specimen was shot at Har-row in Middlesex. Young birds of this species resemble the female ; but thecolours of their plumage are much obscured with olive andbrown. The nest of the Pine Bulfinch is described as much re-sembling that of our indigenous species, being composed ofsmall twigs, and lined with feathers, and placed not manyfeet from the ground. The eggs are described as beingwhite, and measuring about an inch in length. PI .!. BULFINCH. 157 INSESSORES. FRINGILLIDM. CONIROSTRES. PLATE CXX. BULFINCH. Pyrrhula vulgaris. The well known Bulfinch is one of our most beautifulBritish Birds, and being attractive in its manners, and re-markable for docility and attachment to its possessor whencaged, is a general favourite. This species is indigenous inthe middle and northern regions of Europe and Asia. It ispartial to woods and forests, and is consequently found toinhabit, in great numbers, the extensive forests of its southern range this species extends throughout Europe,but is far less abundant towards its southern kingdom, andknown in some only as a winter migrant. This is the casein some of the islands of the Mediterranean : in Corfu,1says Mr. Drummond in his list of the birds that frequentthat island, this species is rare, and seen only in is probably the southern equatorial limit of the Bul-finch, as it is not mentioned by the sa
Size: 1639px × 1525px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, bookidcoloured, booksubjectbirds
