Image: A history of British birds (1871) (14746972441)

Description: Identifier: historyofbritish01yarre (find matches) Title: A history of British birds Year: 1871 (1870s) Authors: Yarrell, William, 1784-1856 Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907 Subjects: Birds Publisher: London, J. Van Voorst Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: eEeed-Warbler are light coloured, and, if their descriptionshave been made from specimens and not copied, it is notonly clear that birds wdth light-coloured legs (that is, in Mr.Hartings opinion, Marsh-Warblers) are not at all uncom- RERD-\VAHIU,ER. 375 monly met with, but also that the oi-if(iual MotacUla anin-dinacea of Lightfoot was one. The Editor must add that he does not charge with wantof caution those writers who have unhesitatingly admittedthe Marsh-Warbler as a British bird, he can only lamentthat his own power of discrimination is so inferior to theirs.If, before investigating the subject, he had any preposses-sion at all, it was in favour of the occasional appearance ofthe bird in England; but since, according to the ornitho-logists who have studied both species in life, it differs sostrikingly in song and habits from the Reed-Warbler, it ismanifestly unlikely to occur often in this country without itspresence being speedily remarked by our numerous out-of-doors observers. Text Appearing After Image: 376 PASSE RES. SYLVIID.E SYLVIflKI^:. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: A history of British birds (1871) (14746972441)
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