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A Systematic Catalogue of the Eggs of British Birds: Arranged with A View to ... Solomon Caesar Malan No preview available - 2008 |
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A Systematic Catalogue of the Eggs of British Birds: Arranged with A View to ... Solomon Caesar Malan No preview available - 2008 |
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ALAUDA ANSER April-May Arctic regions ARDEA ash-grey and dark Bechst blotches ash-grey bluish green bluish white Boie Bonap Briss Britain buff colour bushes CHARADRIUS chiefly colour common Buzzard CORVUS countries of Europe CYCNUS CYPSELUS dark brown dark olive-brown dark purple-brown Diurnæ Eggs EMBERIZA FALCO FRINGILLA GALLINULA Gmel GRALLATORES GRANI grass greenish white grey and dark ground Gull Hewitson HIRUNDO holes of trees holes of walls Iceland Illig INSECTI June June-July larger end LARUS Lath Leach LXXXIII margin of lakes marshes marshy places May-June Meyer midland countries MOTACILLA mottled Nest North America north of Europe olive olive-green Oologist pale and dark PALMI PARUS PEDES PERDIX PODICEPS preceding species purple grey reddish white rocks S. C. MALAN Sandpiper SCOLOPAX sea-coast sea-shore speckled spots and blotches Steph STERNA STRIX Sub-gen SYLVIA Tetradactyla THALASSIDROMA TOTANUS TRINGA TURDUS URIA VORE Yarr yellowish brown yellowish grey yellowish white دو وو
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Page iii - SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF THE EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS, arranged with a View to supersede the use of Labels for Eggs. By the Rev. SC MALAN, MA, MAS On writing-paper. 8vo, 8s. 6d.
Page 143 - ... heather. At Tongue we saw some goslings about a month old (following a hen), which had been hatched from eggs taken at Loch Laighal. We were told that they became nearly as tame as common geese, but refuse to intermix or breed with them.
Page 9 - ... branches of the tallest oak or pine tree, situated on the margin of a stream or pond. It resembles that of the Common Crow externally, being formed of dry sticks, intermixed with Spanish moss, and is lined with coarse grasses and a few feathers. The eggs are from four to six, of a greenish-white colour, with a few irregular blotches of dark brown at the larger end.
Page vii - Vll. collection ; according to which arrangement, all the eggs of one nest, will, of course, bear the same mark. If eg a collector possess several eggs of the common Buzzard, viz : three found in one nest in Westmoreland, one bought of a dealer, and the other obtained in exchange ; every one of the three eggs found in the same nest will bear on the ticket...
Page vi - ... which in the case of the commoner birds, sometimes amount to a great many. Most of those duplicates are kept separately, the systematic collection embracing besides the eggs of one nest, or the number laid by each bird, only one or two of the most striking varieties. This CATALOGUE is intended to apply only to such a * Gum arable dissolved in water is preferable for this purpose to either glue or paste ; from its not being liable to be attacked by insects.
Page 114 - ... larger than those of the lapwing and smaller than those of the golden plover, equally pointed with the latter, but proportionally broader and more rounded at the larger end than either. The dimensions of one of them were two inches exactly, by one inch and three-eighths : the ground-colour is a very pale yellowish green, sprinkled all over with irregular spots of dark brown, intermixed with blotches of light purplish gray, the spots and especially the blotches more numerous at the larger end.
Page vii - ... a ; the egg purchased, 17 b ; and the egg procured by exchange, 17 c; and the particulars relating to those several specimens will be entered in the Catalogue under the 17th species, thus : — 17sp.