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
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cheeks, which are cinereous with a slight tinge of green, a narrow blackline extends downwards ; the back bright green; upper tail-coverts yellowish ; wings olive-green ; quill-feathersdarker, with distinct yellowish-white spots along their outer edges; tail dark olive-brown, the two middlefeathers having traces of obscure transverse bars; the under parts, like the cheeks, cinereous tinged withgreen. The general colour of the female is the same as in the male, with the exception of the head, the crown ofwhich is entirely grey; the black mark between the eye and beak less apparent, and that on the cheekssmaller. The young males at a very early age, even while in the nest, are to be known by the crimson forehead andthe black mark on their cheeks; but the young females at this period have no trace of these lines, and theyare not acquired till some time afterwards. Length between eleven and twelve inches. Our Plate represents a male and female of the natural size, in their adult plumage.
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WHITE -RUM F E B FOODPI CKE .B ,Picas leuconotus; fTemm.j ■,,.,-.,..--..,-..,. WHITE-RUMPED WOODPECKER. Picus leuconotus, Bechst.Le Pic leuconote. Of the group of true Woodpeckers distinguished by the alternate black and white of their plumage, thepresent is by far the largest and most handsome; we may also add, that it is the rarest, never occurring inEngland, nor in the southern portions of the European continent. Its true habitat appears to be Siberia and the adjacent parts of Russia, whence it occasionally emigrates asfar as the North of Germany; but this is only in severe winters. This fine species is so little known even to naturalists, that we are not aware of any other specimens inEngland besides the examples we possess, a circumstance to be attributed to the little intercourse kept upwith the remote and desolate region where it abides. It is there, doubtless, by no means uncommon ; and wethink we may venture to affirm, without fear of contradiction, that there exist in that

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