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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roaching to black on the head, round theeye and on the forehead; the rump a beautiful rose red. The adult male differs from the preceding, in havinga light buff orange tinge where the other is crimson ; pale beneath; wings and tail deep black, the two barson the wings, the edges of the quills and tail-feathers being very conspicuous and pure white. In this statethe bird is rare. In the female the general tint is a greyish olive, the base of each feather slate colour, and the centre black,giving the bird a streaked appearance; the rump pale lemon colour; neck, throat and breast yellowish olivegrey, the lower part of the belly also patched with black; wings and tail brownish black; middle and longcoverts of the former broadly tipped with white, forming a double band across, so conspicuous as to afford themost obvious distinguishing character of the species ; all the quills are slightly edged paler; irides hazel; billdark horn colour; legs nearly black. We have figured a male and female.
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Corytkus enucleator. (Ckv.j ■::,i/Si. ■Ken.-br,: c;/,+Jl. rkt.n ■ ■ V ■ : Genus CORYTHUS, Cuv. Gen. Char. Beak short, hard, thick, rounded in every part and slightly hooked at the point.Nostrils basal, lateral and rounded, covered with thickly set hair-like feathers. Tarsishort. Toes entirely divided. Wings more lengthened than in the genus Pyrrhula.Tail moderate and slightly forked. PINE GROSBEAK. Corythus eneucleator, Cuv.Le Bouvreuil durbec. The Pine Grosbeak, hitherto classed among the Bullfinches, has been separated by Cuvier and advanced tothe rank of a genus under the name of Corythus, which, as will be readily perceived, has characterssufficiently strong to warrant its legitimacy. The situation which this genus appears to hold is that of theconnecting link between Loooia on the one hand and Pyrrhula on the other; agreeing with the former in itsplace of resort, habits, manners and style of colouring, and with the latter in the short and rounded beak.—The Pine Grosbe

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