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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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silverygrey; under tail coverts white, slightly barred withbrown. Beak black; tarsi and toes yellow. Young birds of the year have the head prettilystriped longitudinally with rich brown of two shades,and white. The upper plumage rich dark brown; theedges of the primaries, wing and upper tail coverts,bordered with fawn-colour. The chin is white with afew longitudinal dark streaks; the crop and chestbroadly marked with brown and white longitudinalspots, which assume a crescentic shape and lightercolour on the abdomen, thighs, and under tail coverts;under wing coverts above fawn-colour, below cream-colour, barred with grey and brown on all the feathers,less distinct on the two above and below; beak horn-colour; tarsi and feet yellow. I have much pleasure in designating this bird Falcogurneyi, in honour of J. H. Gurney, Esq., M.P., ofCatton Hall, Norwich, a gentleman who has donemuch to increase our knowledge of raptorial birds.The name of Levant Sparrow-Hawk is a suggestionof Mr. Gurney.
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CALCUTTA S P A R H. O W - H A AV 1:Adult Male and Female. 191 RAPACES.Family FALCONIBJEl. Sub-o^enus Micronisus. C A LCUTTA SPARROW-HAWK. Falco hadms. Micronisus badius,Falco hadius, dussumierii. Hodgson. Blyth. Bonapaete. Gmelin. Temminck; Nee Jerdon vel Sykes.Gray.Hodgson.Hodgson. Accipite7 hadius, scutarius, fringillaroides,Browns Hawk, Calcutta Spar7oiv-I£awl,and Chippuch Falcon, Latham. SkiJcra (female,) Chippuch (male,) Of Hindostan.Kathia (female,) Tunna, (male,) Of Nepal. Specific Characters.—Upper plumage dark reddish brown topale ash. grey, according to age; below grey white, thickly barredtransversely in both sexes with ferruginous. Length of maleeleven inches and three quarters; carpus to tip seven inches anda fifth; tarsus two inches. Length of female thirteen inches andtwo fifths; carpus to tip eight inches; tarsus two inches in thedry skin. 192 CALCUTTA SPAKROW-HAWK. This bird has been introduced into the Europeanfauna by Professor Blasius, not as an accidental visit