. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . he inside of which is yel-low : both mandibles are slightly notched near theirpoints: irides hazel: from each eye to the hinder partof the head, a narrow line is formed by a singular divisionof the feathers, which here, as well as on the head andneck, are close and smooth, and of a dull dusty mouse-colour ; the back, wings, and tail are nearly the same,but have a lead-coloured cast: the tips of the lesser quills,and the breast, belly, and vent, are white; legs duskyand brown : nails black. The female lays only one egg, which is larg
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . he inside of which is yel-low : both mandibles are slightly notched near theirpoints: irides hazel: from each eye to the hinder partof the head, a narrow line is formed by a singular divisionof the feathers, which here, as well as on the head andneck, are close and smooth, and of a dull dusty mouse-colour ; the back, wings, and tail are nearly the same,but have a lead-coloured cast: the tips of the lesser quills,and the breast, belly, and vent, are white; legs duskyand brown : nails black. The female lays only one egg, which is large in pro-portion to her size, being about three inches in length : 162 BRITISH BIRDS. they are not all alike; those of one bird being of awhitish ground, and of another, perhaps, pale blue, orpale sea-green, and all of them are curiously and irregu-larly spotted and streaked with black. It has been before observed, that these birds associatewith and breed in the same places as the Razor-bill, andthat they are, in many places, indiscriminately C3^^s^ BRITISH BIRDS. 163
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