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Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches) Title: British birds Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925 Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co. Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Fig. 73.—Honey-Buzzard. i natural size. Hampshire to Aberdeenshire. Up to within four or live years agoa few pairs continued to return to us each summer, but these, too,have now vanished. This fine large hawk, in size the equal of thecommon buzzard, lived almost entirely on insect food, wasps andwild bees especially—hence its name of honey-buzzard. The remaining species to be noticed are all true falcons: thegyrfalcon (Hierofalco gyrfalco), an inhabitant of arctic Scandinavia,only once obtained in this country; the Greenland falcon (Hiero-falco candicans), a wanderer to this coimtry from north-westAmerica and Greenland ; the Iceland falcon (Hierofalco islandicus),a wanderer from Iceland; the red-footed falcon (Tinnimculusvespertinus), an occasional visitor from the warm countries ofEurope; and the lesser kestrel (Tinnunculua cenchris), a visitorfrom southern Europe, where it breeds. 218 BBITISH BIBDS Cormorant.Phalacrocorax carbo. Text Appearing After Image: Fio. 74.—Cormorant. i\ natural size. Upper head and neck black, striated with hair-like white feathers,those on the occiput being elongated, and forming a crest in spring ;throat white; gular pouch yellow; mantle black and bronze-brown ; all the other parts black, except a white patch on the thigh,assumed early in spring and lost in summer; iris emerald-green.Female: larger than the m
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