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. 1797 Excerpt: ...to breed in Greenland, where the female makes its nest in the sissures of the mountain rocks; the outside is composed of grass, within which is a layer of feathers, and the down of the arctic fox composes the lining of its comfortable little mansion; she lays sive white eggs, spotted with brown. These birds do not ...
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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. 1797 Excerpt: ...to breed in Greenland, where the female makes its nest in the sissures of the mountain rocks; the outside is composed of grass, within which is a layer of feathers, and the down of the arctic fox composes the lining of its comfortable little mansion; she lays sive white eggs, spotted with brown. These birds do not perch, but continue always on the ground, and run about like Larks, to which they are similar in size, manners, and in the length of their hind claws, whence they have been ranged with birds of that class by some authors, but are now with more propriety referred to the Buntuigs, from the peculiar structure of their bill. They are said to sing sweetly, sitting on the ground. On their sirst arrival in this country they are very lean; but soon grow fat, and are considered as delicious food. The Highlands of Scotland abound with them. TAWNY BUNTING. GREAT PIED MOUNTAIN FINCH, OR BRAMBLING. The length is somewhat above six inches: The hill is short, of a yellow colour, and blackish at the point; the crown of the head tawny; the forehead chestnut colour; the hind part of the neck aftd cheeks the fame, but paler; the throat, sides of the neck, and space round the eyes are of a dirty white; the breast dull yellow; the under parts white, in some tinged with yellow; the back and scapulars are black, edged with reddish brown; the quill feathers are dusky, edged with white; the secondaries are white on their outer edges; the greater coverts are tipped with white, which, when the wing is closed, forms a bed of that colour upon it; the upper tail coverts are yellow; the tail is a little forked, the two outermost; feathers are white, the third black, tipped with white, the rest wholly black; the legs are short and black; the hind claws almost as long, but more b...
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