British game birds and wildfowl (1855) (14748041261)

Identifier: britishgamebirds00morr (find matches)

Title: British game birds and wildfowl

Year: 1855 (1850s)

Authors: Morris, Beverley Robinson Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver

Subjects: Game and game-birds Birds Birds

Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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y, tipped with white. Kump and upper tail coverts, and tail,black; belly, pale gray, with minute wavings of a darker shade; vent, black. Legs andfeet, blue gray; the membranes of a darker shade. The female has the bill black; head and neck, dusky brown, paler on the throat;back, darker and more uniform in colour than in the male; lower neck and breast, darkash brown; belly and vent, pale gray; under tail coverts, dark gray. The weight of the adult male is about two pounds one or two ounces. The length, nineteen to twenty inches, PAGETS POCHAED. (Fuligula ferinoides.) Bartlett. Theee specimens of this Duck have been obtained: one in Norfolk, the others in theLondon market, we believe. Mr. Yarrell has described it as the American Scaup,Fuligula mariloides, Vigors. It however differs so little from the Scaup, that it is un-necessary for us to do more than refer to an article in the Zoologist, page 1778,for a full account of the bird; and to Mr. Tarrells description, in his British Birds.

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oP o M is\A 239 FEBBTTGINOUS DUCK. BED DUCK. WHITE-EYED DUCK. CASTANEOUS DUCK. NYROCA POCHARD. FuJiguJa nyroca,Anas ferruginea,Anas nyroca,Nyroca leucopthahnus,Canard a iris llanc, Stephens. Gjeelts. Bewick. Fleming. Tesesiikck. Fuligula. Fuligo—Soot; from the colour of some of the species. JSl/roca—. This Duck, which is only occasionally obtained, is a winter visitor to these islands. InScotland it is very rare, and in England it has only been met with on the eastern sideof the island; specimens having been procured in Yorkshire, as noticed at Kedcar, by T.S. Eudd, Esq.; in Suffolk, as recorded by F. W. Johnston, Esq., of Ipswich; and inOxfordshire, two specimens in 1832, and one in 1847. In the London markets, thesebirds may be not very unfrequently picked up; and they are stated by Mr. Tarrell,generally co come from the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts. On the continent it appears to be rare, frequenting rather the southern portions thanthe northern, and being resident in Corfu, Cret

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