The birds of Great Britain; systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 Excerpt: ...top of the head, beak, lhoulders, and tail, gloffy black: wing coverts and quills dull brown: throat, breaйt, and under parts, pure white: a white fpot on the head next the bafe of the bill, and a large white oblong marking on the wings: the exteriour tail feathers are white on the outer webs: legs and feet very lhort, llender, and black. Les yeux font d'un brun foncé. Le bec eй noir et court; la mandibule fu-périeure eй un peu échancrée vers le bout et un peu recourbée: le fommet de la tête, le dos, la bafe des ailes et la queue font d'un noir luйré: les couvertures.cles ailes ainíi que les pennes Гont d'un brun fale: la gorge, la poitrine et le def-fous du corps font d'un blanc qui eй pur: on apperçoit fur la tête dе cet oifeau près de la bafe du bec une tache blanche, et fur fes ailes une grande marque ob-longue de la même couleur. Les barbes des plumes extérieures de la queue font blanches en dehors: les jambes et les pieds font très courts menus et noirs. I-ORD. Ill. GEN. IX. FLYCATCHER. SPE. Il. FEMALE PIED FLYCATCHER. Pl. 94.. The bill in this bird is olive brown: eye dark brown: a pale line of white from the bafe of the bill palïes through the eye: the top of the head, neck, back, and lhoulders, are of an olive brown colour: throat, breaйt, and under parts, dull white: lefs wing coverts black, with broad white tips; greater coverts black, with white edges, broad at the bafe, forming together with the tips of the lefs coverts an oblong white marking on the wings, fomewhat limilar to that on the wing of the male: quills dullbrown: tail dufky black: legs black. The male and female in this fpecies are fo diff...