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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ects which lodge upon the culmens of the reeds. The sexes offer the same relative differences that are observed in the Reed Bunting, the black head of themale being exchanged in the female for brown blotched with dashes of black. In the male, the upper part of the head, cheeks, and throat are black; a white stripe begins near the angleof the beak, and extends round to the back of the neck; the whole of the upper surface is of a rich chestnutbrown, the centre of each feather being largely blotched with black; the under surface is white, the flanksbeing marked with longitudinal lines of brown ; bill black ; tarsi brown. The female, which closely resembles the male in her general plumage, is distinguished by the colouring of thehead already alluded to; by the absence of the white stripe round the neck; and by the dull brownish whiteof the under surface, which is thickly dashed with longitudinal spots of deep brown.The Plate represents a male and female of the natural size. ■jX&»-1
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