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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: ts, grouse, Opisthocomus, &c.).Order xiii. Tinamidae (tinamous).Order xiv. FuUcariae (rails, coots).Order xv. Alectorides (cranes, bustards, Cariama, &c.).Order xvi. Limicolae (plovers, snipe, knots, &c.).Order xvii. G a vise (gulls, skuas).Order xviii. Pygopodes (auks, divers, grebes).Order xix. Sphenisciformes (penguins).Order xx. Tubinares (petrels, albatross).Order xxi. Psittaci (parrots). It will be noticed that, out of these twenty-one groups into which we may divide the Neornithes Carinatae of Gadow, only threeare not represented in Great Britain, viz. the Sphenisciformes,Psittaci, and Tinamiformes. So that the student of bird anatomy inthis country has plenty of chance of making himself acquaintedwith the main outlines of structure of the entire class of livingbirds. Out of the thirty-two minor divisions of these birds, nofewer than twenty-one are to be met with in these islands ; and ofthose that are not, some are quite easy to get hold of—a parrot, forinstanco. Text Appearing After Image: Missel-Thrush, or Stormcock. Turdus viscivorus. Upper parts ash-brown; under parts white, faintly tinged withyellow, marked with numerous black spots; under wing-covertswhite; three lateral tail feathers tipped with greyish white.Length, eleven inches. There are six British thrushes. Of these the missel-thrush andblackbird are residents through
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