Identifier: monographofweave00bartle (find matches)
Title: A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bartlett, Edward, d. 1908
Subjects: Weaverbirds Finches
Publisher: Maidstone, The author
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hickly marked with brown spots. One clutch of three,in my possession, fitly illustrates the above noted variation. The eggsaverage 1,^ x H, while the ground-colour, of which there is a good dealseen, has a greenish tinge ; the spots also incline to the blunt end ; andin addition there is a dark ring there, more or less pronounced. Among the notes which I have collected is one On the Birds fromthe Argentine Republic written by my lamented friend Mr. B. W. White,he says it is A tolerably common bird in the upper Riverine provinces;and much kept as a cage bird in Buenos Ayres, as it has a very finewhistle, almost rivalling that of the English Blackbird in power, but notin variety. Specimens examined. Sex. Mus. Locality. Length. Wing. Tail. Tars. Culm. J KB. Buenos Ayres. 8 0 4-1 3-6 10 00 S E.B. Brazil. 7-2 4-1 3-6 10 0-55 2 E.B. Brazil. 7-5 3-8 3-5 10 0-55 jun. E.B. (?) 7-0 3-6 3-2 0-9 0-55 (?) M.M. Brazil. OO 3-6 00 10 055 The figures (Plate I.) are taken from b and d, life size. PI, I
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