A History of British Birds

ash grey bars bill is black birds of prey blue bluish breast and belly breed Buff Buffon cere chiefly claws black Cuckoo dark brown dark horn dull white Eagle eyes hazel Falco feeds feet female lays Fieldfare five eggs five inches flocks fore frequently greater coverts green ground hinder insects irides kind Lark lays five lays four lesser coverts light likewise Linn.-Le male mandible marked middle feathers Motacilla moult nearly nest numbers observed olive outer pale brown pale edges pale yellow places Plover plumage PRATINCOLE prey quadrupeds quill feathers quills dusky Red Grouse RED-BACKED SHRIKE reddish brown rump rust colour rusty scapulars seen short shot sides sometimes song species specimen spotted with brown streak Swallow tail feathers Temminck thighs throat Thrush tinged tipped with white Titmouse toes trees variety various vent Whinchat white spot White-tailed Eagle whitish wing coverts winter woods yellowish