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Identifier: historybirdsEurIIBree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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nd the yellow of the throat isseparated from the yellow stripe over the eyes by agrey band. Of its habits and propagation nothing is known, asMiddendorf does not mention the subject further thanin ihe passage quoted. The adult male has the top of the head, cheeks, andinferior parts generally vivid and pure citron yellow;on the occiput is a large black band, in the form of across; nape, back, crop, and flanks, lead-colour; middleand great wing coverts bordered and terminated withpure white; primaries and rectrices, blackish, except thetwo lateral tail feathers, which are pure white; feet andlegs brown; posterior claw longer than the toe. The 142 YELLOW-HEADED WAGTAIL. males and females have no black cross on tlie occiputafter the autumn moult. The distinctive characters of the female have beenalready noticed^ and will be further observed in myfigure, which is an adult female in summer plumage,after Middendorf. Figured by Gould, pi. 144; Middendorf, SibirischeReise, ii., pi. 14, fig. 4,
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n 143 INSECTIVORtE. Family MOTACILLID^. Genus MoTACiLLA. fLatham.J GREY-HEADED YELLOW WAGTAIL. Motacilla Jlava, f Lin, nee Ray.J Var. Cinereo-capilla. Motacilla cinereo-capilla, Savi; Orn. Tosc. iii, p. 216. Bonaparte; Icon. d. Faun. ItaL, pi. 31, f. 2. Degland. Dubois. Cabanis. Selts-Longchamps. Jlava cinereo-capilla, Schlegel; Revue. Feldeggi, Michaellis. Dalmatica, Betjch. Bergeronnette de printems a tete grise, Of the Feench.GrauJcopJige gelhe Schafstelze, Oe the GtEEMans. _ Specific Characters.—Feathers of the back and rump olive green;throat white. No white or yellow stripe over the eye. All therest as in M. Jlava. Length about six inches. Nothing can better illustrate the difficulties which at-tend the determinlation of species when slight alterationsin colour are taken as sufficiently distinctive, than this andthe following bird. As Dr. Zander has well remarked,we find the two ends of the series of varieties, and 144 GREY-HEAUED YELLOW AVAGTAIL. constitute them species. The
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