This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... depressing according as it is alarmed or irritated, or at rest; and thus they 'part to meet again: ' the upper one is the longest, sometimes measuring about eight inches in length; they are tipped or not with brown or black, according to the age of the bird; chin, throat, and breast white, with a very faint tinge of cream ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... depressing according as it is alarmed or irritated, or at rest; and thus they 'part to meet again: ' the upper one is the longest, sometimes measuring about eight inches in length; they are tipped or not with brown or black, according to the age of the bird; chin, throat, and breast white, with a very faint tinge of cream-colour. Back, on the upper part, black, with green reflections, on the lower part fine grey. The wings expand to the width of three feet three inches and a half, or a little over that measurement, the first quill feather is of the same length as the fourth, the third a little longer, the second the longest in the wing. Greater and lesser-wing coverts, grey; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, grey; greater and lesser under wing coverts, pure white. Tail and tail coverts, fine bluish grey. The legs are feathered nearly to the knees; the bare part and the toes, pale yellowish green. Claws, black, short, and hooked; that of the middle toe pectinated on its inner side. The female is like the male. In the young the tip of the bill is blackish brown, the remainder dark brown, the edges paler in colour; the base and lower mandible, yellowish green or yellowish brown; iris, brown, the eyelids pale greenish brown, head, crown, and neck on the back, brown, with the centre of each feather yellowish white; the neck in front has the feathers yellowish white, deeply margined with brown and yellowish brown; the nape wants the plume. Chin, throat, and breast, yellowish white, the feathers deeply margined with yellowish or greyish brown, forming elongated spots; back, deep brown, with angular yellowish white streaks on the centre of the feathers. Greater wing coverts, deep brown, with triangular-shaped spots of whitish on their tips; lesser wing coverts, de...
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