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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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sed knob at the base; iris, yellowish brown; headon the crown and sides, and neck on the back, buff colour,darkening towards the nape and all round, where it becomesalmost orange brown, with the exception of a black colour,which encircles it round the middle; chin, buff colour; breast,orange brown; back, orange brown. Greater and lesser wingcoverts, pale buff white; primaries, leaden grey—nearly black;secondaries, leaden grey, the speculum brilliant green; tertiaries,orange brown. Legs and toes, brownish grey; webs, brownishgrey. Female; head on the sides, white; on the crown and theneck, mouse grey; throat, white; breast, light ferruginous, palerbelow; back on the upper part, light ferruginous, on the lowerpart dark brown with a tinge of green. The wings have ablunt spur at the bend; greater and lesser wing coverts, white,forming a broad mark on the wing; primaries, brown, theedges darker: the secondaries exhibit a green speculum. Tail,dark brown with a tinge of green. Webs, black.
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<:$; i- ■ 169 SHIELDRAKE. COMMON SHIELDEAKE. SHELDEAKE. SHELLDEAKE.SKELDEAKE. BUEEOW DUCK. SKELGOOSE. SKEELING GOOSE. Tadorna Bellonii, Stephens. vulpanser, Fleming. Anas tadorna, LlMNJEUS. Pennant. Tadorna— ? Bellonii—Of Bellon. The Shieldrake is a bird of very wide dispersion. In Europeit is known in Sweden, where it breeds; also in Iceland,Norway, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Holland. InAsia, its range extends from Ivamtschatka and the southernparts of Siberia to Persia, Tartary, China, and Japan. Bewickmentions that Captain Cook has noticed them at Van DiemensLand, and that they have been seen in great numbers onthe Falkland Islands. This species is strictly a maritime one, though it hassometimes occurred inland; but such instances form theexception, not the rule. It has been shot in Northampton-shire, the Hon. T. L. Powys has written me word, and healso mentions two killed near Oxford. In Cambridgeshireit used to be not uncommon. In Yorkshire, it has occurrednear D

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