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 (1794) (14563187529)

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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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the present instance, on theextreme branch of some tall tree, where they can con-ceal it among the leayes. This nest was built on a branch of the greater ^map-ple~tree, commonly called plane-tree, or sycamore. Several leaves were displayed like an umbrella overthe nest; others hung down about the sides thereof.The tree was at that time in blossom. The outside of the nest consists of various kinds ofmoss, very neatly platted together with small blades ofdried grass, and a few small roots. The next coatconsists of down gathered from the receptacle of thecommon -^ dandelion, mixed amongst which I find manyof the yellow florets of the aggregate. The innermostcoat or lining consists of very fine down, mixed witha few small fibres of roots. The depth of the cavity is an inch, the diameterlittle more than two inches. The Goldfinch lays five or six eggs. They arewhite, marked with spots of a dark brown-red, asfigured on the bottom of the plate. * Acer pseudo-platanus., + Leontodon taraxacum.
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■;Sfiliili#* »e2 LrSRA??Yi^VARD, UNiVE:;siTYeAWE^ncF, i.j USA 23 FRINGILLA CGELEBS. Syst. Nat. 318. THE CHAFFINCH. PLATE XXIII. X he bill is straight, sharp at the point, where it isblack. The base is of a yellowish horn colour. The eyesare brown, the eye-lids pale. The forehead is black.The crown of the head and hind part of the neck of abluish lead colour, which colour is extended down thesides of the neck almost to the throat, where it ter-minates in a point. The upper part of the back is ared-brown, with a cast of olive. The lower part to-wards the tail a yellow-green. The first quill feathers of the wing are black, withthe extreme edges light-coloured. The second quillsare also black, having the edges green. The tips ofthe larger coverts are white. The lesser wholly white,which form two elegant bars of white on the extendedwing. The throat, breast, shoulders, and cheeks, are of apleasant red-brown. The belly and coverts under thetail are white. The two middle feathers of the t