Identifier: birdsEuropeVGoul (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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offer marked differences of colouring. The former, before the autumn moult, havethe forehead yellowish white; the top of the head, occiput, and back of the neck, brown with black bars ; ablack stripe passes through the eyes ; the back and wings light brownish grey, each feather having a borderof blackish ; tail- and quill-feathers tipped with whitish. After the autumn moult the back of the head is black,and the under parts are, as in the adult, light grey. The adult plumage may be thus characterized. The forehead white ; a black stripe passes from the base ofthe upper mandible, through the eye, and joins a large black patch on the occiput and back of the neck ;upper parts fine blueish grey, the rump and tail being white, as are also the under parts; beak orange tippedwith black ; tarsi orange; length 8i inches, but when seen with outspread wings flapping over the sea, thebird appears much larger than it is in reality. Our Plate represents an adult and a young bird of the natural size.
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V ■ ): 4 r fe- N u^l NODDY TERN. Sterna stolida, Linn. Le Mouette brun, ou Le Fou. Two individuals of this species having been shot in the summer of 1830, off the coast of Wexford in Ireland,between the Tasker Lighthouse and Dublin Bay, it becomes necessary to include a figure of it in the presentwork. These examples (the first, we believe, that have occurred in Europe,) have been placed on record byW. Thompson, Esq., Vice-President of the Belfast Natural History Society. We are indebted to American ornithologists for the best accounts of the habits of the Noddy. Mr. Audubonfound numbers collecting from all parts of the Gulf of Mexico and the coasts of Florida, for the purpose ofresorting to their breeding-places on one of the Tortugas called Noddy Key, where many of these birdswere observed by this gentleman in May 1832 repairing old nests that had been used by themselves or theircompanions the preceding year. The Noddy, unlike the generality of the Terns, builds in bushes or low t

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