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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, clothed all over with long silky plumes, fullycompensates for the deficiency. The outward sexual differences are but trifling: the male may be always distinguished by the elongatedfeathers of the throat, which in fine adults are carried to an extreme, and which are displayed in the mostbeautiful manner when the throat is distended by their simple whistling strain. The young birds bear so close a resemblance to the young of the common species, that a description willbe unnecessary; if any difference exists, it is that the prevailing colour is darker. The moult of the first autumn is characterized by the feathers being slightly tipped with white, which istotally lost in the following spring. The adult male has the whole of the plumage of the body, wings and tail of a shining black, which isenlivened by reflections of purple and violet; beak blackish brown at the base, the point yellow; feet lightbrown. The Plate represents a male and female in the adult livery and of the natural size.
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Pastor roseus. //r////v(.v--. • . ■ ■■ - . ■ ■ . ■ ■ . 1. / * Genus PASTOR, Temm. Gen. Char. Bill conical, elongated, cutting, very compressed, slightly curved, the point notched.Nostrils basal, ovoid, partly closed by a membrane and clothed with small feathers. Feetrobust. Toes three before and one behind, the external toe united at its base to the middleone. Tarsi longer than the middle toe. Wings having the first quill:feather very short, oralmost obsolete, the second and third equal and longest. ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR. Pastor roseus, Temm.Le Martin roselin. The birds composing the genus Pastor are exclusively inhabitants of the older-known portions of the globe,and especially its more eastern and warmer regions. The species are pretty numerous : the only one, how-ever, which is known to visit the more temperate countries of Europe is the present beautiful and elegantexample, the true habitat of which appears to be the western parts of Asia and the North of Africa, pa

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