Identifier: colouredillustra41847meye (find matches)
Title: Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Meyer, H. L. (Henry Leonard), d. 1864 Meyer, H. L. (Henry Leonard), d. 1864. Illustrations of British birds Rutter, Daniel, former owner. DSI Rolle, Mark, former owner. DSI S. & J. Bentley, Wilson & Fley, printer S. & J. Bentley and Henry Fley, printer
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds Taxidermists Birds
Publisher: London : G.W. Nickisson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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taken in autumn by means of horsehair snares; the fla-vour of the young is very fine, and its meat tender and invery excellent condition. Adult birds that have fed onmarine productions taste fishy and rancid. The Whimbrel Curlew measures sixteen inches in length;the wing, from the carpus to the tip, nine inches and ahalf; the beak, three inches. It is the same with the Whim-brel as with the Curlew in respect to size at different ages ;and when called upon to give the dimensions, it is under-stood to refer to adult birds. The head, neck, back, scapulars, WHIMBREL CURLEW. 201 wing-coverts, tertials, secondaries, and tail are all of a brown-ish-white, the feathers having dusky brown centres and shafts ;the sides of the breast are also marked with dusky brownspots on a white ground ; the under parts are white, mostbeautifully marked with dusky spots. The beak is dusky,and yellow at the base of the under mandible ; the iris isbrown; quills dusky; legs bluish ash-colour. The chin iswhite. I
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SPOTTED REDSHANK. 208 GRALLATORES. SCOLOPACIDM. PLATE CLXXVIII SPOTTED REDSHANK. TOTANUS FUSCUS. The Spotted Redshank is a rare occasional visitant in theBritish Isles; but being chiefly seen in its winter garb, it is,consequently, not always recognised as being identical with thespecies now represented. In the London market this bird isnow and then brought for sale, in autumn and winter. Theoccurrence of the dusky sandpiper of Selby, which is the pre-sent species in summer plumage, has only taken place once ortwice in this country, in an intermediate stage. This speciesis more numerous in North America than in any other quarterof the globe, particularly during the summer. In Europe andAsia it occurs but sparingly, and we have no record of itsever having visited Africa. The summer months are passedby the Spotted Redshank in northern climes, such as Iceland,Norway, Lapland, Siberia, Greenland, and the coast of Den-mark, from whence specimens in summer plumage are obtain-ed. Soon after

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