File:The birds of Europe (1837) (14751625732).jpg

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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
the mountain ash, the haw, the privet, &c. The general colour of the body of the male bird is of a dull vinous ash, with a bright ferruginous tinge onthe forehead and cheeks ; the feathers of the head prolonged into a beautiful crest; beak and tarsi black ; thethroat, the feathers of the nostrils, and a band which passes from the beak through the eye, black ; primaryquill-feathers brownish-black, each feather being marked on the inner margin of the tip with a yellow line ;secondaries tipped with white and having the shaft prolonged and furnished with singular appendagesresembling red sealing-wax, whence its name; upper tail-coverts ash-coloured, the under ones ferruginous;tail black tipped with a yellow band. The male and female offer but slight external differences, both having the wax-like appendages to thesecondaries; they are, however, less numerous in the female, and are altogether wanting in the young. Our Plate represents a male in the adult plumage and of the natural size.
Text Appearing After Image:
- B1LACK. jLAFnKoAlauda Tartarica; (faM:) T*i. .t^vtw, STiX.hr,-;-z. h _-,-.: Jrvn&U ens C JrxZZ-,,: ^n-j-Z. Genus ALAUDA, Linn. Gen. Char. Bill subconic, short, the mandibles of equal length, the upper one slightlyconvex. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly concealed by small reflected feathers. Feet,three toes before, and one behind ; the anterior ones entirely divided; the claw of thehind one long and nearly straight. Wings, the first quill very short, or wanting, the thirdthe longest; tertials in most instances shorter than the quills. Coronal feathers generallyproduced, and capable of being erected. BLACK AND WHITE LARK. Alauda Tartari ca, Pall.LAlouette Negre. The Alauda Tartarica is a native of the high northern regions of the old continent, where it enjoys a mostextensive habitat, being dispersed, as we have every reason to believe, over the whole of Siberia, NorthernRussia, Lapland, &c., and from whence it performs periodical migrations into more temperate climes. I

Note About Images