The birds of Europe (1837) (14565506127)

Identifier: birdsEuropeIIIGoul (find matches)
Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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monly in low bushes and hedges, but sometimes on the ground among corn.The eggs are five in number, of a reddish grey marked with streaks of brown. The plumage of the male is much more lively than that of the female. The top of the head is greenisholive; an edging of white feathers forms the margin of the eyelid ; ear-coverts brown ; the throat, the sidesof the face, below the eye, and the chest, are of a delicate yellow; the upper surface reddish brown, thefeathers of the back and wings being dashed in their centre with black ; the under surface pale tawny ; beakand legs flesh-coloured. In the female, the whole of the upper surface is greyish brown, with a number of small black lines on thehead, the feathers of the back having their centres black also ; the throat is pale yellow, and is bounded bya range of brown spots ; the rest of the under surface is pale brownish red ; the eyelid is edged with whiteas in the male. The Plate represents an adult male and female of the natural size.
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-STIC BIimTIZTClEniberiza rustica, C-ind). ■fnfhnn.Mx^aroS oivstmi ty J~&H.Gwtfd/ i RUSTIC BUNTING. Emberiza rustica, Pall.Le Bruant rustique. For fine examples of both sexes of this exceedingly scarce Bunting we are indebted to the Directors of theMuseum at Frankfort; and although its native country is Siberia, Kamtschatka, and the adjacent islands, weare inclined to admit it among the Birds of Europe, on the assurance of some naturalists that it is frequentlyfound within the limits of the north-eastern portions of the Continent. M. Temminck has also admitted iton the same grounds, though he himself has never received it in a recent state, and until he does, he preferstaking his account from the work of Pallas. In the disposition of its colouring the Rustic Bunting resembles several other species of the genus Emberiza;but it departs in a trifling degree from that form; and in the stoutness of its bill and the shortness of itstail would appear to approach the Finches. The female