Identifier: birdsEuropeIIIGoul (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
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d, as we have never seen any examples of it in collections from any other locality. The young during the first autumn resemble the female, which, as we have above stated, is much lessbrilliant in all her markings than the male. The male has the crown of the head, throat, chest, and under surface rich gamboge yellow, the flanks andunder tail-coverts streaked with reddish chestnut; the upper surface rich brown inclining to olive, the centreof each feather being darker; primaries blackish brown with lighter edges ; rump brownish orange; tailbrownish black, the outer edges of the feathers yellow, and the inner web of the outer feather on each sidelargely blotched with white; legs and feet yellowish brown. The upper surface of the female resembles that of the male, but the tints are less brilliant; the undersurface also is not so bright, and is destitute of the rich chestnut streaks which adorn the male, these markingsbeing brown. The Plate represents a male and female of the natural size.
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YELLOV-BEEASTED B HOTTING, Emlenza aureola: fFall:J. Itrcurfnjror*. JfcUv.* > Jt,c--,i -ykw.. by J~Jb£ Gould. ^■•Af:. ru ■: F*-:-hr..-> YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING. Emberiza aureola, Pall.La Bruant aureole. This very beautiful Bunting has been more than once captured within the precincts of the European conti-nent ; it consequently becomes necessary for us to give a figure of it, and in so doing we introduce to ourreaders one of the most beautiful species of this group, so celebrated for their agreeable and well-contrastedcolours. A specimen of the male, one of the very finest we have ever seen, was obligingly lent to us byT.B.L.Baker, Esq., of Hardwicke Court, Gloucester, a gentleman to whom we shall ever feel indebted for manyacts of great kindness and liberality, and who has considerably facilitated the study of ornithology by thepublication of a work entitled An Ornitbological Index, in which are enumerated the genera and speciescontained in the works of most of the prese

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