The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 605
he crevices oftrees, and extracts the insects and their eggswhich are lodged there : the tail consists often stiff, sharp-pointed feathers, bent inwards,by which it supports itself on the trunks oftrees while in search of food; for this purposeits feet are short and thick, and its toes, whichare… … This species weighs about twenty ounces; I irides light yellow; the head, coverts of thelength eighteen inches. The bill yellowish; | wings, and scapulars are of a deep bluish ash 592 THE FIELD BOOK. colour; the nock ami In-east vinaceous, beau-tifully glossed with green and copper…
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