The birds of Europe (1837) (14727724116)

Identifier: birdsEuropeVGoul (find matches)

Title: The birds of Europe

Year: 1837 (1830s)

Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881

Subjects: Pictorial works Birds

Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e white. The winter plumage is similar to that of summer, with the exception of the chocolate hood, which isgradually exchanged for pure white, a change which Mr. Yarrell has correctly observed in his valuable paper On the Laws which appear to influence the assumption and changes of plumage in Birds, published in theTransactions of the Zoological Society of London, (vol. 1. part 1. p. 13,) is produced not by a process ofmoulting, but by an alteration in the colour of the feathers. The young of the year have the colour of the bill and tarsi much more obscure; the top of the head andear-coverts are mottled with brown, which is also the colour of the back and shoulders, each feather having alighter margin; the tail is broadly edged with black. The full plumage of maturity is not acquired until after the moulting of their second autumn, and is assumedby gradations. The sexes do not differ in their colouring. The Plate represents an adult, and a young bird of the year, of the natural size.

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m - g^ y BLACK-WINGED GULL. Xema atricilla,Larus atricilla, Linn.La Moutte a ailes noires. In figuring this species of Gull under the specific title of atricilla, we would beg to observe that it should notbe confounded with the atricilla of M. Temminck, which name must necessarily fall in consequence of itshaving been previously given to another species. The present bird is common in the United States of America, and was, we believe, the only species of Gullfigured by Wilson, who considered it to be the true atricilla of Linnseus. Of the capture of this bird inEurope no later account has been published than that given in the publications of Montagu, whose originalspecimen, now in the British Museum, has afforded us an opportunity of determining it to be identical withthe American bird. Beneath we have annexed the account given by Montagu, who clearly points out thedistinctions between it and the common species, Xema ridibundus. In the month of August 1774, we sawfive of them feeding i

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