. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i« t''j <f--,''. 'lit â â a<Ja THE YELLOW BERGERONETTE, cheek, are the males*. According to Belon, their yellow tint is alfo much more vivid: the line of the eyebrows is equally yellow : and it is remarked that the colour of all thefe birds is more intenfe in winter after moulting. Edwards defcribes this bird under the name of tbg gray water ivagtail-x ; and Gefner applies the epithets of /hake-tail^ beat-ley, which are equivalent to lavandiere (waper-'woman).
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i« t''j <f--,''. 'lit â â a<Ja THE YELLOW BERGERONETTE, cheek, are the males*. According to Belon, their yellow tint is alfo much more vivid: the line of the eyebrows is equally yellow : and it is remarked that the colour of all thefe birds is more intenfe in winter after moulting. Edwards defcribes this bird under the name of tbg gray water ivagtail-x ; and Gefner applies the epithets of /hake-tail^ beat-ley, which are equivalent to lavandiere (waper-'woman). In fa£t, thefe bergeronettes frequent, no lefs often than the white wagtail, the brinks of water and pebbly brooks J ; and, fince they lodge in fuch fituations during the winter, their haunts are even more conftant. However, the greater part of them migrate ; for they are more nu- merous among the cattle in autumn, than be- fide the fprings and rivulets in winter §. Lin- naeus ⦠Willughby defcribes only the female, and calls it the gray ivagtail: and Albin, who gives two figures of this bird, only delineates the female twice } for neither of them ha» black on its throat. f Gleanlttgs. An inaccurate denomination which origi- nated with Willughby, who owns that he defcribed only the female. ^ Willughby. § " In the month of AuguO: fuch numbers are caught, that hundreds are brought to town, although at other fea- fons tliey are rare, and cannot be ; Btloti. Adanfon . ^ ⢠^ found. 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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