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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ellow, witha cast of olive. The head and back are olive, witha shade of brown. The rump inclines more to yel-low. The outer borders of the seven first quill feathersare of a bright yellow, as are also those of the bastardwing. The next quills are edged with a dusky green,and the last are wholly dusky. The first row of cov-erts are of a dusky ash colour, the second a yellowishgreen, brighter than the feathers on the back. The throat and breast are a green yellow, the bellymore yellow, and becomes almost white about thethighs. The tail is a little forked, consisting of twelve feathers,the two middlemost of a dusky black, except the upperpart of the exterior margins, which are olive-coloured. All the rest are yellow, except about half an inch ofthe lower part, which is dusky. The legs and feet are of a dusky horn colour, andthe claws black. The colour of the hen is in all parts more dusky anddull, and in old birds the feathers of the back andbreast have brownish dashes down their shafts.
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/ :Bge: ua USA 14NEST AND EGGS OF THE GREENFINCH. PLATE XIV. The Greenfinch makes her nest in some close hedgeor bush, more frequently m an holly than any othertree. She lays for the foundation a number of small sticks,which cross each other every way, in the same mannerof those of the bullfinch. Upon these, in the nest be-fore me, is laid a great quantity of coarse moss, mixedwith sticks, roots, and cows hair; and upon these,immediately under the lining, is a thick coat of rootsfirmly entangled together, and over these is a thickcoat or lining of red cows hair. The diameter of the cavity is two inches, the depthan inch and an half. The brim of the nest is ragged anduneven, and the whole very roughly fabricated. In this nest was six eggs of a pale bluish white, ormilk and water colour. They are marked with brownand purple spots. The Greenfinch feeds on grain, berries, the buds oftrees, and insects. The song of the Greenfinch is harsh and unpleasing;but the beautiful colours and fine s

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