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Page 54
... stripe ; the back and the wing coverts a red brick colour with black spots ; the under part of the body a rust rose colour with longitudinal black marks ; the leg and rump feathers of the same hue ; the tail feathers dark brown ...
... stripe ; the back and the wing coverts a red brick colour with black spots ; the under part of the body a rust rose colour with longitudinal black marks ; the leg and rump feathers of the same hue ; the tail feathers dark brown ...
Page 62
... stripe runs from the nostrils , be- tween the eyes , to the region above the temples , which are white . The under part of the body is white , with dusky , dark brown wavy lines , more distinct in the female than the male . The larger ...
... stripe runs from the nostrils , be- tween the eyes , to the region above the temples , which are white . The under part of the body is white , with dusky , dark brown wavy lines , more distinct in the female than the male . The larger ...
Page 66
... stripe passes between the eyes ; the head , nape and sides of the neck , back , and upper tail coverts ashen grey , the last the lightest . The whole under part of the body white , the breast and belly having a tinge of rose colour ...
... stripe passes between the eyes ; the head , nape and sides of the neck , back , and upper tail coverts ashen grey , the last the lightest . The whole under part of the body white , the breast and belly having a tinge of rose colour ...
Page 67
... stripe on the forehead ; the upper part of the body is a dark ashen grey , marked hardly perceptibly with red ; the under part white , tinged on the breast with yellow , and on the sides with red . They may be taken from the nest as ...
... stripe on the forehead ; the upper part of the body is a dark ashen grey , marked hardly perceptibly with red ; the under part white , tinged on the breast with yellow , and on the sides with red . They may be taken from the nest as ...
Page 70
... stripe runs from the nostrils between the eyes to the ears ; the back and the wing coverts are a beautiful reddish brown ; the throat , the rump , and the under - part of the body , white , tinged with red on the breast , belly , and ...
... stripe runs from the nostrils between the eyes to the ears ; the back and the wing coverts are a beautiful reddish brown ; the throat , the rump , and the under - part of the body , white , tinged with red on the breast , belly , and ...
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allowed to range ashen grey Attractive Qualities.-The autumn aviary beak beautiful BECH belly Blackcap blue body bread breast breed Bullfinch Bunting cage Cage-birds Canary Carrion Crow caught Chaffinch Common Nightingale confinement dark brown Description.-This edged eggs elderberries eyes feed feet Fieldfares Finch flesh-colour flocks fond frequently Goldfinch green greyish brown ground habits head hemp seed Hoopoe House Sparrow inches in length insects iris Lark larvæ Lesser Redpole light lighter limed twigs Linnet lower MACGILLIVRAY male mandible meal worms moulting Mountain Finch neck nest Nightingale pair Parrots pen feathers perch plumage range the room rape seed reared reddish grey resembles rump rust colour season side sing Siskin sometimes song Song Thrush Sparrow species spotted spring Stock Dove stripe tail feathers tail measures throat Thrush Thuringia tinged tipped trees universal paste whitish wild wing coverts winter woods yellow Yellowhammer yellowish young birds
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Page 312 - To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted strain — 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond — Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring.
Page 312 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below.