Identifier: birdsEuropeIIIGoul (find matches)
Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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te; theabdomen and under tail-coverts pure white ; the feet are dark brown inclining to yellow on the undersurface ; the bill is brownish black at the point; the base of the under mandible reddish yellow. The plumage of the middle age differs from that of the adult in having the head and crest of a muchdarker colour and the whole of the upper surface more inclining to reddish brown with slight reflexions ofgreen; the primaries are rufous, tinged with greenish brown towards the points, which are pure white ; thethroat and chest are clear reddish brown ; the under surface as in the adult male. The young of the year is still darker in its plumage; the crest is short; the feathers of the back andsecondaries are of a reddish brown; the two middle tail-feathers are slightly tipped with white; the frontof the neck and the chest are deep rufous; all the other inferior parts are reddish white; feet and beaklead colour; irides grey. The Plate represents a male of the natural size, nearly adult.
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AMERICAN CUCKOO.CoccyzusAmencanus; (fionap:) A«** in/ Glfattrtu&idd/. Genus COCCYZUS, Vieill. Gen. Char. Bill of moderate length, rather strong, arched, the culmen convex, the basecompressed. Nostrils basal, elongated. Wings short. Tail long, cuneiform. Tarsi andmiddle toe long and equal. AMERICAN CUCKOO. Coccyzus Americanus, Bonap.Le Coucou Cendreillard. Four examples of this American species having been taken in Great Britain, namely two in Ireland, one inWales, and one in Cornwall, we have no hesitation in admitting it to a place in this work. The first notice we are acquainted with of the occurrence of this bird appeared in the Field NaturalistsMagazine of Mr. Rennie. Mr. Ball of Dublin Castle, in a letter to the editor of this Magazine, made known thecapture of the first specimen, which was shot near Youghal, in the county of Cork, in the autumn of 1825 ;and the second was shot at a later period at Old Connaught near Bray. The Cornwall specimen was thesubject of a private co

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