A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles (1862) (14563932087)

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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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, compressedslightly; upper mandible furrowed for three parts of its length,its point hard and obtuse, and overlaps the inferior mandible;nostrils lateral, linear, opening into the beak through thefurrow. Face and the space from the eye to the beakcovered with feathers. Legs slender, naked above the knee;three toes in front and one behind, the anterior united by amembrane as far as the first articulation, the hind articulatedto the tarsus, and touches the ground. Wings medium size,the first primary the longest. SLENDER-BILLED CURLEW. Nimienius tenuirostris. Numenius tenuirostris, Vieillot; Diet., 1817. liastatas, Contarini. syngenicos, MuHLE. Courtis a bee grete. Of the French. Dunnschndhliger Braclvogel, Of the Germans. Ciurlottello, Savi. Specific Characiers.—Beak slender and sliort; under wing covertspure unspotted white; the spots on the abdomen shaped like aspears head. Length fifteen inches; carpus to tip nine inchesand a half; tarsus two inches and a half; middle toe and claw
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SLENDER-BILLED CURLEW. 55 one inch and a half; beak two inches and seven tenths, (circum-ference at base one inch;) length of keel of sternum two inchesand a half; depth at highest part one inch and one tenth; breadthof sternum superiorly one inch, inferiorly one inch and a fifth. The Slender-billed Curlew is a permanent inhabitantof Sicily, and is found accidentally in Greece, Italy,and in the south and north of France. In Sicily M.Malherbe informs us that this bird is the commonestof the three species, and Degland suggests the proba-bility of its breeding in that island as well as inItaly. Count Miihle states, in his OrnithologieGriechenlands, that it is as plentiful as the Whimbrelin Greece; and he thinks that it builds there, as hehas observed single birds seeking food in summer, andhas shot young ones in August on the sea-shore. Hesays it migrates the end of September, Dr. Lindermayer, in his Vogel Griechenlands, sayshe does not know the periods of its migrations, as hehas only k