Identifier: illustrationsofo01jard (find matches)
Title: Illustrations of ornithology
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Jardine, William, 1800-1874 Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Mitford, R. C. W. (Reginald Colville William), b. 1839, ill Hewitt, Eleanor G., donor. DSI Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI Lenox Library, former owner. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Arsenic compounds
Publisher: Edinburgh : Published by W.H. Lizars London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and S. Highley Dublin : W. Curry Junr. & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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bill is blackish-brown: the crown of the head brown, with the mar-gins of the feathers yellowish-white. The face, region of the eyes, and au-riculars, pale brownish-orange, the hinder part of the neck pale buff, the * Lieutenant J. Atherton, 13th. Light Dragoons, since deceased on his passage to Englandfor the benefit of his health. G PERDIX PICT A. centre of each feather black, the front and sides of the neck white, spottedwith black. Breast, belly, and flanks, beautifully spotted with black andyellowish-white. The upper back and wings deep brown, with longitudi-nal cream-yellow streaks, and with the edges of the feathers pale wood-brown. The quills are barred with hair-brown and pale reddish-orange ;the lower back and rump transversely barred with black and white. Up-per tail-coverts brown, with waved black and white bars. Tail brownish-black, with a few narrow white bars near the base. Vent and under tail-coverts deep orange-brown. The legs, feet and claws, are yellowish-brown. 5L
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