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Zusammenfassung
"Purple Waterhen (Porphyrio hyacinthinus)" = Porphyrio porphyrio (painted from specimen from Algiers, Algeria; December 1855).
Identifier: historyofbirdsof04bree (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
Text Appearing Before Image:
y small ash-coloured streaks;top of the head, all the other upper parts, and thetwo middle quills of the tail ash-colour, very clear,the shafts of the feathers only being darker. Shoulderedges of the wings and the primaries black; thesecondaries tipped with white; shaft of the first primary 76 TEREK GODWTT. white; the lateral feathers of the tail very clear ashgrey, and fringed with a slight border of white. Baseof the beak and legs of a livid yellow, Male and female in breeding costume.—Forehead,ear coverts, checks, front and sides of the neck, markedby small meshes or striae of dark brown on a whiteground; crop and other inferior parts pure white; allthe ashy feathers of the superior parts marked thelength of the shaft with large brown meshes, and oneblack stria on the shaft; scaj)ularies have several largeblack spots, and the other feathers some black strise onthe shafts; carpus and border of the wing perfectlyblack. My figure of this bird is from Goulds Birds ofEurope, jil. 307.
Text Appearing After Image:
GRALLATORES. Family RALLIDjE. (Bonaparte.) Genus PoRPHYRio. fBrisson.J Generic Characters.—Beak strong, hard, thick, conic, nearlyas deej) as long, shorter than the head; upper mandible de-pressed and dilated, so as to occupy at its origin the entireforehead and part of the vertex. Nostrils lateral, round,situated at the end of the basal third of the upper mandible,and pierced from side to side through the substance of thebeak. Legs long and strong; toes very long in some species,the anterior entirely divided, and all of them fringed by aslight narrow membrane. Wings medium size; the first primaryshorter than the second, third, and fourth, which are eachlonger than the other. PUEPLE WATERHEN. Porpliyrio hyacintliinus. Porphyrio hyacintliinus, Temminck, 1820. veterum, Gmelin. antiquorum, Bonaparte. Fulica porphyrio, Pallas, 1811-31. Taleve Porphyrion, Of the Feench. Europaisches Purpurhuhn, Of the Gekmans, Polio Sultana, Savi. Specific Characters.—The middle toe longer than the tar