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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
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brown. Bill blackish; legs orange; webs black.The feathers of the forehead terminate on the bill in asemicircular outline. The plumage of the occiput andnape longer than in the common Golden Eye, andforming a more decided crest; wings two inches and ahalf shorter than the tail. In the female the head and adjoining part of theneck are umber brown, and without any white mark;dorsal plumage pitch black; its anterior parts, particu-larly the shoulders and the base of the neck all round,edged with ash grey; a white collar round the middleof the neck. Flanks clove brown, edged with white.Intermediate coverts blotched with white and black;greater coverts white tipped with black; secondariesas in the male. Both mandibles orange at the point,their tips and posterior points black. Feet as in themale.—Nuttall. My figure is taken from Hichardson and Swainson,Faun. Bor. Amer., pi. 70. The egg is one brought byMr. Procter, of Durham, from Iceland. The bird has also been figured by Gould, pi. 380.
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-j:J; 167 PALMIPEDES.• Family PELECANID^. f Bonaparte.JGenus Pelecanus. fLinnceus.J Generic - Characters.—Beak long, thick, straight, and muchdepressed; upper mandible flattened, terminated by a strongnail or hook; inferior mandible formed by two bony branches,depressed, flexible, united at the tip; from these two branchesdepends a large fold of skin in the form of a pouch. Faceand throat naked; nostrils basal, opening longitudinally; legsstrong, short; three toes in front and one behind, the latterarticulated internally, but on the same plane as the others, allunited by a membrane; claw of middle toe without denticu-lations. Wings medium size; the first primary shorter thanthe second, which is the longest; greater wing coverts andsecondary quills, nearest the body, as long as the primaries. DALMATIAN PELICAN. Pelecanus crispus. Pelecanus crispus, Bkuch; Isis, 1832. onocratulus, var. orientalis, Linn^us. Pelecanus onocratulus, Pallas. Pelican frise, Of the French. Riesen-Pelikan,