A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris (1862) (14751880662)

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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 and Sons

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

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equal length, but the fifthrather the longer, as it is also the longest in the wing; theprimaries are almost black—all the feathers white at the base.The tail coverts are bright brown; tail, dusky black, barredwith a paler colour, and tlie end of a reddish hue. The feetare yellow; claws, black. The young bird in its first year has the bill of a dark bluishhorn-colour, darker towards the tij) than at the base; cere,yellow; iris, hazel; the head, neck, and back, dark chocolatebrown; breast, the same; the margins of the greater and lessercoverts, as also the tertials, tipped in a well-defined ellipticalform with yellowish white or white. The tail is dark chocolatebrown. The legs are feathered down to the feet, and thesefeathers are variegated with lighter shades of brown; toes,yellow, reticulated for part of their length, but ending withfour large broad scales; claws, nearly black. In its secondyear, the colour of the whole plumage becomes more uniformlyof a general dark reddish brown.

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03^REY, 23 OSPREY. Pandion haliaeius, SAvroxY. Falcn Bewick. Bnlhisnrdiis haliaetus, Fleming. Aqnila Jkxyns. Pandion—The name of a Greek hero, changed into a bird of prey.HiUaiitus. (H)als—The sea. Aietos—An Eagle. It is not every one who has had the fortune—the goodfortune—to visit those scenes, where, in this country at least,the Osprey is abnost exclusively to be met with. In these,which may in truth be called the times of perpetual motion,there is indeed hardly a nook, or mountain pass, which is notyearly visited by some one or more travellers. Where shallthe most secure dweller among the rocks be now free fromthe intrusion of, in ornithological language, at least occasionalvisitants: Still the case is not exactly one to which appliesthe logical term of universal affirmative. Though every spotmay be visited, it is not every one who visits it. How manyof those who shall read the following description of the Osprey.have taken the grand tour of Sutherlandshire.^ In that des

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