A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris (1862) (14564287078)

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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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nish black, with a tinge of yellowish red, the lowerone pale yellowish red or brown at the base, the spacebetween the bill and the eye dark; iris, pale j^ellowishbrown; forehead, greyish white. Head on the crown, andback, blackish grey, the feathers edged with white; neck onthe back, and nape, dull white; chin, throat, and breast,dull white; back, grey, mottled across with pale brown.Greater wing coverts, grey, the tips white; lesser wins^coverts, grey, varied with crescent-shaped marks of palebrown; primaries, deep blackish grey, the inner margins andtips white, the outside one nearly black, except, the shaft,which is white; tertiaries, greyish white, barred with duskyreddish brown. Tail, greyish dusky on the base and middlepart, the inner webs and tips of the feathers white; legsand toes, dark dusky brown; webs, dark dusky brown. In another stage of plumage the head is mottled withblack and white, the back marked with angular spots ofblack, so also are the wing coverts and the tail.
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27 ROSEATE TERN. Sterna Dougclliy MonTaGU. Sterna— ? Dougalli—O^ (Mac)dougall. The species before us extends its flight in Europe, fromNorway, Sweden, and Denmark, to France, Holland, Germany,and Italy. Specimens have been procured in Africa, at theCape of Good Hope, and in Madeira. In Asia, from India;and in Anierica it is plentiful in Florida. This very elegant Tern was first discovered by Dr. Mac-dougall, after whom it was named. He found it on anisland called Cumbray, in the Frith of Clyde. It has sincebeen observed in divers other localities, among them inCumberland, at Brugh Marsh Point, on the Solway Frith. In Yorkshire specimens have occurred at Scarborough,Hornsea, and Hebden Bridge. One was shot at Swanpool,Falmouth, Cornwall, October 1st., 1846; so too in Devonshire,and in Norfolk at Yarmouth. Likewise in Oxfordshire, twoon the River Isis, near Oxford, and one at Tusmore Park,near Bicester, in the summer of 1848. T. C. Eyton, Esq.,of Eyton, has recorded its capture in S