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
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rrect information as to the description of itseggs, or its peculiar habits of nidification, in which, however, we conceive it agrees with the rest of itscongeners. The sexes offer so little difference in the colouring of their plumage that one description will serve forboth. The adult has the forehead, cheeks, and throat yellowish white; a narrow black mark passes from the billto the eye; the top of the head, neck, and chest black; the upper surface fine blueish grey, the tip of eachfeather edged with brownish black and a margin of greyish white beyond; primaries greyish black; uppertail-coverts white; tail black; the whole of the under surface silvery white; flanks strongly marked withgrey in waved bars ; feet and bill black; irides dark brown. The young are easily distinguished from the adults, by the light colouring of the face being more cloudedwith black, and by the general plumage being less pure and decided. The Plate represents an adult about three fourths of the natural size.
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cb m % RED-BREASTED GOOSE. Anser ruficollis, Pall.LOie a Cou roux. We regret that we are unable to give any detailed account of this beautiful Goose. Only four or five instancesare on record of its having been captured in the British Islands; and its occurrence on the European conti-nent appears to be equally rare, except in the most north-eastern portions, where it is rather more plentiful.The countries to which it habitually resorts are doubtless the extreme northern parts of Asia and Siberia, itsmigrations in summer extending to the shores of the Frozen Ocean, where it breeds and rears its young. Ex-traordinarily severe seasons or other unusual circumstances, driving it out of its usual course, are in all pro-bability the causes of its appearing occasionally in this country, and in other temperate portions of the globe.The first example captured in England was taken near London in 1776, passed into the hands of Mr. Tunstall,and is now in the Museum at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; another

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