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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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, disappear in the spring without a doublemoult. I may take this opportunity of observing that Mr.Small, a bird-stuffer and naturalist, of George Street,Edinburgh, has in his possession a male specimen ofthe Abyssinian Roller, (Coracias Abyssinica,) whichwas killed near Glasgow a year or two ago. Mr. 158 SARDINIAN STARLING. Small had the bird in the flesh, and preserved theskin himself. He says the female was also obtained ashort time after, but forty miles distant from where themale was killed. Mr. Small is a well-known naturalist,and I have not the slightest doubt that the statementis in every point correct; but as I am not aware thatthis bird, which is distinguished by the two longprocesses at the end of the outer tail quills, has everbeen observed in Europe, and as there is a possibilityof the two birds having escaped from confinement, Ido not feel justified in introducing it into this work.I notice it here as its place would have been thatpreceding the bird I have just described.
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159 Order III.—INSECTIVOILE. Family LANIDJE. (Bonaparte.) Genus Lanius. (Linnaeus.J Generic Characters.—Beak medium size, robust, convex, andmuch compressed; superior mandible strongly curved at thetip, forming a hook; base destitute of a cere, covered withrough hairs directed forwards. Nostrils basal, partly lateral,almost round, closed by an arched membrane, and frequentlynearly concealed by the hairs. Tarsi longer than the middletoe; three toes in front and one behind, entirely divided.First primary of the wings of moderate length, the secondslightly shorter than the third and fourth, which are thelongest. GREAT GREY SHRIKE. Lanius meridionalis. Lanius meridionalis, Temminck; Man. i., 143. BoNAPAETE. ScHLEGEL. Schinz. Degland. Keyseeling et Blasius.Pie grieche meridionale, Of the Feench. Siidlicher Wiirger, Of the Geemans. Specific Characters.—First quill feather shorter than the fifth;tail long and much graduated, with the lateral quill feathershalf black and half white; a w

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