Identifier: cu31924000050082 (find matches)
Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eneral colour ochreous buff, all the feathers with black bases,or black down at the base; nape clear grey; two white streaks over the eyes,meeting behind at the nape, bordered below, and less distinctly above, -ndth black;wing quills very dark brown, with indistinct rufous margins; the secondary quillsapproaching the colour of the back, with a black subterminal bar to each, and awhite tip; tail warm buff, the two centre feathers plain, the next, on each side,with a black bar at the end, terminated by a bufiish-white tip; the white increasesin area on each pair outward. Legs and feet light pinkish-grey. Length 9;-iOjinches, wing (closed) 6 inches, or a trifle more. Sexes exactty alike. From anadult female in my collection from Fuerteventura, Canaries. Young are ruddier than adults, with grey on the nape, but no white or black;the upper parts have the feathers tipped with grey-brown crescents, and the throatand breast are spotted with the same colour. Saunders ( Yarrell, 1884, vol. iii.
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Cream-Coloured Courser ?f The Cream-Coloured Courser. ^■^ p. 245) states that the fully adult dress is not assumed till the end of the secondyear. Nestling (Fuerteventura, 24, 3, 1888, taken by Mr. Meade-Waldo, who kindlylent me the skin to describe), is sandy, whiter on the throat and chin, and mottledabove with two shades of brown. The bill and feet look as if they had beenyellowish-brown when fresh. There is really no nest, the bigger stones being just moved away to makeroom for the bird to sit on the two eggs (Meade-Waldo, Ibis, 1889, p. 505).The eggs are usually two in number, and are laid, as in the Pratincoles andTerns, side by side. Their ground colour is pale stone-buff, without miy gloss,minutely freckled and scribbled with pale blue-grey and umber-brown, some beingmuch more thickly marked than others. (I have taken this description from twosets in my own collection from Fuerteventura). At a short distance they lookextremely like water-worn pebbles, and we can readily beli

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