A History of British Birds, Volume 1

appearance ash colour bars bill is black birds of prey blue bluish body breast and belly breed brown colour Buff buff colour Buffon Buffon says builds its nest cere Chaffinch chiefly claws black common Cuckoo dark brown DOTTEREL Eagle eyes hazel Falco feeds female lays five Fieldfare five eggs five inches flocks frequently green grey ground hatched head and neck hinder insects Lark lays four light likewise Lin.-Le male mandible marked middle feathers migrate Motacilla Mountain Finch numbers observed orange colour pale brown pale edges pale yellow places Plover plumage prey quadrupeds quill feathers quills are dusky Red Grouse reddish brown rump rust colour rusty scapulars seen short sides six eggs sometimes song species spotted with black spring streak Swallows tail thighs throat Thrush tipped with white TITMOUSE toes trees tribe upper variety vent white spot White-tailed Eagle wing coverts winter yellowish