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Identifier: historyofbirdsof03bree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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spring moult takes place, and even in thebeginning of June we find occasionally winter feathersremaining. During the period of transition we seespeckled birds with more or less white feathers amongthe speckled ones. The spring moult comes on in this way:—Thecoloured feathers first appear on the head and neck. 220 WILLOW GROUSE. next on the back, last on the breast; and this talliesexactly with Hearnes observations in North America.My figure of this bird is that of a female shot byMr. Wheelwright from the nest in June, 1860. It istherefore in the real breeding plumage. The eggfigured was taken out of her nest at the same time. The bird has also been figured by Buffon, pi. cnl.129, (female in breeding plumage, f. 2 head of femaletaking on the breeding dress;) Boutcil, Ornith. duDauph., pi. 42, f. 1; Naumann, Vogel. Deutsch., pi.159; Temminck, Pig, et Gall., vol. iii, pi. 11, figs. 1,2, 3; Frisch, pi. 110 et 111, (in winter plumage, andcommencement of moult;) Gould, B. of E., pi. 255.
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2?A GALLING. Family TETRAONID^E. (Bonaparte.) Genus Pterocles. ( Temminck.J Generic Characters.—Beak medium sized, compressed, slenderin some species; upper mandible straight, but curved near thepoint; nostrils basal, half closed by a membrane, covered bythe feathers of the forehead, open below. Feet with shorttoes, the under one hardly developed and articulated high upthe tarsus; the three front toes united to the first articulation,and edged with a membrane; the front of the tarsi coveredwith small very short feathers, the rest naked. Claws veryshort, the hind one sharp edged, those in front obtuse. Tailconical; in some species the two middle feathers are elongatedin a thread-like manner. Wings long, terminated in a point,the first primary the longest. PIN-TAILED SAND GBOUSE. Pterocles alchata. Pterocles alchata, Stephens. setarius, Temminck. Tetrao alchata, LiNNiEtrs. caudacutus, Gmelin. chala, Pallas. JEnas cata, Vieillot. Ganga cata, Or the French. Chata-Flughuhn, Of the German