Identifier: harmoniaruraliso00bolt (find matches)
Title: Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ...
Year: 1794 (1790s)
Authors: Bolton, James, fl. 1775-1795
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Stannary, near Halifax : Printed and sold by the author ... London : Sold also by B. and J. White ...
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ale colour. The head is of a dusky ash colour, with a strong castof olive, the back and rump are olive colour, the lattermore yellowish. The tail consists of twelve feathers of the same colouras the back, except the two outmost on each side,which at the tips are clouded with white. The lower side of the bird, from bill to tail, is white,with a dash of yellow brown on the sides of the breast,and under the wings, and all the white part is beauti-fully spotted with black spots of various shapes; those onthe throat and upper part of the breast are triangular,on the lower part oval or kidney-shaped, and towardsthe tail lunated. The legs and feet are yellow, the claws are black,very much curved, and sharp pointed. The wing is olive-coloured, the first and second quillshaving white tips. The coverts have broad white mar-gins. Feeds on the berries of * misseltoe when it can findthem ; it also eats insects, bilberries, haws, and othersmall fruits, like the rest of the thrushes. * Viscum album.
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3ITTiSA ..^..»..t.1..44 4NEST AND EGGS OF THE MISSELBIRD. PLATE IV. The Misselbird most commonly places her nest in anash tree, at the coming out of one of the branches, agood height from the ground. In the nest before methe first lay consists of several kinds of moss, hay, stalksof dried plants. Sec. which being brought in great plenty,and disposed in a very rugged manner, constitute thechief part of the fabrid;; Upon this follows a lay ofplaster, composed of clay mixed with cows dung, sowell tempered together as to form^ when dry, an hardtough shell of about half an inch thick. Upon this islaid another covering of soft dry grass, which is neatlyplatted both in the cavity and all round the bordersof the nest. The diameter of the cavity is about fourinches, the depth not fully two. This nest was built between the triple division of thebranch of an ash tree, and hung all round with the * ash-liverwort, so as to hide it on every side. On remo^dngit I found that some part of the liverwo

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