Birds and their nests and eggs - found in and near great towns (1907) (14568870020)

Identifier: birdstheirnestse00vosg (find matches)
Title: Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Vos, George Herklots
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : G. Routledge New York : E.P. Dutton.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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Greenfinch White with pale purplish red spots at larger end Yellowhammer Purplish-white, streaked and veined reddish,purple and violet grey Jay Pale greyish-green, speckled and spotted paleolive- brown Plate XXXIV (Natural sizes) Linnet Chalky white or tingedblue, spotted light reddish-brown and purplish-red—Spots sometimes very fewor noneRed-backed Shrike Skylark Pale green, pale buff, pale Greyish-white,salmon, or cream, spotted spotted andand blotched reddish-brownand purpUsh-greyMagpiePale bluish-green, freckledolive-brown and faintly Pied WagtailPale bluish spottedgreyish brownclouded darkgreenish-brown Missel ThrushGround colour variable, from bluish-white to reddish-brown, variously blotched ash220 spotted and blotched with purple,brown, and grey
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Plate XXXV (Natural sizes). Kestrel Pheasant Reddish-white, blotched, dull red all over Uniform olive-brown with minute dots all overHeronPale dull (sea) greenEnglish Partridge French (red-legged) Partridge Pale greenish-brown yellow Reddish yellowish-white, spotted and speckled all over with brownish-red221 SYNOPSIS AND ALPHABETICAL INDEXOF SOME OF THE BIRDS MENTIONED I. BUTCHER-BIRD, OR RED-BACKED SHRIKE (Pages 110-112)Lanius collurio, one of the shrike family, which havethe bill hooked more or less. Shrike said to be fromthe shriek-like notes of some of the species. (Thereare other shrikes, rare stragglers in Great Britain.)Lanius, Lat., a butcher. Collurio, Lat., an old bookname for a kind of thrush (? fieldfare) and afterwardsapplied to the shrike. Syn. : Nine Killer, the bird wasbelieved by country folk to kill nine victims beforedevouring them ! Also : Cheeter, Flesher, Jack Baker.Whisky John (local names). Found : Chiefly in thesouth. A robust-looking bird of a grey and reddis