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

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:
ing, traces of this summer plumage remained, and in this state we havefigured an adult, which is represented by the foremost bird in the Plate. Its flight is as light and buoyantas can well be imagined, and its general actions and form resemble those of the rest of the genus. The colouring of the adults in their winter plumage is as follows: The whole of the upper surface is of a beautiful bluish ash; the quills and secondaries tipped with white;the throat and under-surface pure white, with a slight tinge of rose-colour; bill brownish red; tarsi brightred; irides brown. In summer the whole of the head and the upper part of the neck become of a brownish black. The young when a year old resemble the adult in the winter plumage, with this exception, that the shoulders,scapulars, quill-feathers, and tip of the tail are deep brownish black, and that the beak and legs are notso red. The Plate represents an adult in its winter plumage, and a young bird of the first year, of the natural size.
Text Appearing After Image:
3 i ; \a%°( SABINES GULL. Xema Sabini, Leach.La Mouette de Sabine. This species has been added to the British Fauna in consequence of two examples having been killed inBelfast Bay and one in Dublin Bay, of which notices have been recorded in the 5th No. of the Magazine ofZoology and Botany; it has therefore become necessary to include a figure of it in the present work. It isalmost strictly an arctic species, and as we have nothing to add to the account of its natural history publishedby Dr. Richardson, we prefer quoting the words of this scientific traveller as given in the Fauna Boreali-Americana, to recording the same facts in any language of our own. This interesting species of Gull, says Dr. Richardson, was discovered by Captain Edward Sabine. Itwas first seen on the 25th of July, at its breeding-station on some low rocky islands, lying off the west coastof Greenland associated in considerable numbers with the Arctic Tern, the nests of both birds being inter-mingled. It is analo

Note About Images