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User Review - DanCook - LibraryThingUtterly beautiful - Bewick was a chap with real talent for anatomical wood-engraving. The best bit is all the social commentary and warnings against ill-living you get thrown in for free in the ... Read full review
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ash colour bill is black birds of prey blueish body breast and belly breed brown colour Buff Buffon Buffon observes builds its nest Busf Buzzard cere chiefly claws black common Cuckoo dark brown dirty white Eagle eyes hazel faid Falcon fame colour feeds feet Fieldfare flocks four or sive frequently gray green ground head and neck hind History of Northumberland insects John Trevelyan Lark lays four light likewise Lin.—Le lour male marked middle feathers Mountain Finch neral numbers orange colour pale brown pale edges pale yellow places Plover plumage prey quadrupeds quill feathers quills are dusky RED-BACKED SHRIKE reddish brown rieties Ruffia rump rust colour rusty scapulars seen sides sield sine sirst sive eggs sive inches sive or six six eggs small birds sometimes species streak Swallows tail thighs throat tipped with white TITMOUSE toes trees tribe upper variety whence white spot whitish wing coverts winter yellowish zard
Bibliographic information
| Title | History of British birds |
| Author | Thomas Bewick |
| Published | 1797 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2008 |
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