Identifier: historyofbritish02morr (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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web; all the other feathers blackish brown, edgedwith lighter, except the two middle ones, which are greyishbrown, having lighter margins than the rest; upper tailcoverts, olive grey brown, without the dark markings on thecentre of the feathers, Legs and toes, pale yellowish brownor grey; claws, pale dusky brown, the hind claw considerablycurved, and shorter than the hind toe. The female resembles the male in plumage, but she is 192 TREE PIPIT. rather less in size. Length, a little over six inches. Thespots on the breast are not so well defined. The wingsexpand to the width of eleven inches. The young birds at first have the bill paler in colour thanthe old birds; the breast w4th more yellow; the spots on thefront of the neck narrower; the back more tinged with green,and the dark marks darker, the margins light greyish yellow;the two outside tail feathers greyish white on the inner web,and the outside one pale brownish grey on the outer web.The legs, toes, and claws, very light brown.
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V.YA ROCK PIPIT. ROCK LAHK. SEA LARK. PTELD LATIK. DUSKY LAEK.SHORE LARK. SHORE PIPIT. SEA TITLIiS^G. Anthus aquatlcus, campestris, rupestris, petrosus,Alauda campestris spinohtta, obscura, petrosa, Beckstkix. Gould. Sri.by.Bkwick. NiLLSON. Flkming. Jenyns. Gmelin. Gmelin. Pennant. Montagu. LiNN.EAN Transactions. Anthus—Some small bird. Aquatlcus—Aquatic—frequenting wateryplaces. The Rock Lark, or Rock Pipit, is an interesting, thoughvery common species, and another of our true ab originebirds. This hardy species braves the severe cold of the polarregions, to which it spreads from the temperate parts ofEurope. It is well known in Norway, Denmark, Sweden,and Grreenland; as also in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,Holland, and other more temperate parts of the continent.In Orkney and Shetland it is a very abmidant species, andalso is found in the Ferroe Islands. It appears to give a preference to those parts of the coastwhich are rocky or hilly, but it is also found, and that i

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