Identifier: historyofbritish04morr (find matches)
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

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cribed as of wary habits. The eggs are of a pale greenish white colour, spotted andspeckled over *invicem with two shades of darker greenishbrown. Male; length, seven inches. The bill is slightly curved;the upper mandible is brown above, the sides pale yellowishbrown, of which colour is the lower mandible; from the baseof the bill there is a dark streak going back to the eye.Iris, reddish brown; over and under the eye, and passingbackwards, is a short cream-white streak. Head, crown, neck,and nape, fawn-colour; chin, throat, and breast, dull white;back, fawn-colour. The wings have the first quill feather short, the secondand sixth of nearly equal length, the third, fourth, and fifthequal in length, and at the same time the longest in thewing. Greater and lesser wing coverts, fawn-colour; primariesand secondaries, brown, the outer edges reddish buff; greaterand lesser under wing coverts, delicate fawn-colour. The tail,which is much cuneated, and consists of twelve feathers, has ^^■*x
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EUFOUS SEDGE WAEBLEE. 9*^ the two long middle ones reddish buff, the others reddishbuff over two thirds of their length, each gradually shortening,then crossed by a broad band of black, the remainder white,the outside paler on each side, with the largest portion ofwhite. Underneath the tail is marked as on the upper surface,but is not so bright. Upper tail coverts, reddish buff. Legs,toes, and claws, pale brown. BLACKCAP. BLACKCAP WAEBLER. MOCK ISTIGHTINGALE. Sylvia atricapilla. Pennant. Jenyns. MotaclUa atricapillay Montagu. Bewick. mosqutay Gmelin. Curru^a atricapillaj Gould. Fleming. Sj/Jvia. Si/Jva—A wood.Atricapilla. ^^er—Black. Capiilus—The, hair of the head. The Blackcap is more cosmopolite in its character thanany other of the British Warhlers. It frequents the wholeof the temperate parts of Europe, from Spain and Portugalto Grermany, Italy, Lapland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.In Africa it is found from the northern parts to the Capeof Grood Hope, and midway in Senegal,

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