Identifier: historyofbritish01morr (find matches)
Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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hite; neck onthe sides, as the head, on the front in the second plumage,greyish white with small light brown spots, and behind asin the adult. Breast, white, afterwards reddish white; back,as in the adult bird, but the colour less pure, and morebrown; at first nearly entirely so. Wings, as in the adult;secondaries, white on the outer edges. The tail has theouter webs of the three side feathers, and part of the innerwebs of the two outer, white; in the second plumage itbecomes the same as in the adult bird; under tail coverts,brownish red. Legs and toes, as the bill. Sir William Jardine describes one which had the crownand under parts white, but all the rest of the ))lumageblack, tinged only on the scapulars with rose red; Montaguothers, as black on the whole of the upper part of the neck,and with an obscure dusky band across the breast; andBewick one, in which the black band througVi the eyes waswholly wanting, the back of the neck black, and the sidesreddi::h brown, mixed with white.
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BEARDED TIT. 219 BEARDED TIT. EEAHDED TITMOUSE. LEAST BUTCHEE EIUD. PINXOCK.BEARDED Pi:XNOCK. EEED PKEASAJJfT. Y BARFOG, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. Partes barbatus, Brisson. • biarmicus, LiNN^US. Gmeltn, Calamophilus biarmicus, Jenyns. Gould. Parus— ? BarJa^Ms—Bearded. It has long been my opinion that this bird partakessomewhat of the characteristics of the Shrikes, as well as ofthe Titmice. In confirmation of this view, I would refer toBewicks figure, which is, I think, strikingly corroborative ofit, as also to the name of Least Butcher Bird, given to itso long ago as the time of Edwards, and that of laniellus,by some modern writer. The Bearded Titmouse is a native of Europe, beingabundant in Holland, and also met with in France and Italy.It is likewise found in Asia, on the borders of the BlackSea and the Caspian Sea, and doubtless in numberless otherparts. In Yorkshire, a bird of this species was observed atKirkleatham, in Cleveland, in 1841 or 1842. The only otheraccount appare

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