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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lack at the point, of a dusky flesh colourat the base ; the eyes black; the inside of the mouthyellow. The brow, just above the bill, is black; theforehead white; the throat and cheeks black; thecrown of the head, shoulders, and back, a dark leadcolour. The lower parts of the back and covert feath-ers of the tail, orange colour; as are also the breastand the tail, except the two middle feathers. Thewings are a dusky brown; the belly and thighs, white;the legs and feet black. The hen differs in colours from the cock, in want-ing the white on the forehead; and the space of thethroat, which is black in the cock, is of a mixed brownand yellow in the hen. The head and back are of anolive brown, and the belly of a pale dusky yellow. Inall these parts where the cock is red, the hen also isred, but of a duller hue. The black and yellow fly, on the plate, is theConops Macrocephalus of Linnaeus ; it has no Englishname. I have met with it about willow trees, inmoist places; but it is not common.
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