Identifier: birdsofbritain00bonh (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, Henry Eeles, 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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white superciliary streak running from the base of theupper mandible over the eye. Flanks deep rich chestnut;remainder of lower parts white, slightly streaked on thesides with olive brown. Bill dark horn colour, legs paleflesh. Length 8*75 in.; wing 4*4 in. The sexes aresimilar in plumage, but the female is paler and duller incolour than the male. The young bird is spotted on theback, and after the autumn moult may still be recognisedby the pale tips to the wing coverts. Its breeding range extends north of 54° from the Yeneseiwestward to Scandinavia, and its breeding in our islandshas not as yet been authenticated. In winter it is foundthroughout the south of Europe, extending eastwardsthrough Persia and Turkestan. THE FIELDFARE Turdus pilaris, Linnaeus An unwonted note strikes our ears, a sort of chack or chick, and looking round we see that it proceeds froma flock of ten or a dozen birds flying on a straight course 10 FIELDFARE Turdus pilaris Adult (left and centre). Young (right)
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The Fieldfare high in the air, with quick and regular wing-beats. At firstsight they appear like Missel Thrushes, but their flight isless erratic, and their unmistakable note tells us that thelast of our migrant Thrushes has arrived to spend thewinter with us. Like the Eedwing, the Fieldfare isemphatically a bird of the North, although, as he alwaysnests in trees, he does not touch high latitudes, like theEedwing, being restrained in that direction by the limit oftree growth. In summer the woods of the far north form hishome, and, as if he himself felt the solitude and intense still-ness that reigns there, he breeds generally in small colonies offrom ten to a dozen pairs. The nests are generally placed inthe first fork of a birch tree, from 4 to 8 feet above theground. The eggs closely resemble those of the MisselThrush, but are rather smaller. The Fieldfares song isvery feeble, and consists of an incoherent warble, variedwith the chack, chack of his call-note. However he isnot the on

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