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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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hite, the belly rayed with lines of blackish grey; bill greyish blue with the nail black; irides light yellow; legs and toes bluish grey, the joints and webs darker. The female has a broad band of white round the base of the bill; the remainder of the head and upperpart of the neck deep brown glossed with green, lower part of the neck and breast having the basal part of the feathers brown, the tips of the former deeply margined with yellowish brown, and those of the breast with white; under surface white; flanks brown, marbled with zigzag lines of white and darker brown; mantle and scapulars brownish black finely mottled with white; tertials black, tinged with green; quills and tail glossy blackish brown; bill deep grey; nails black. The young males resemble the old female till after the first moult. The colours of the young females are less distinct, and the black and white lines on the back are scarcely perceptible. We have figured a male and female rather less than the natural size.
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N r %; I r i V v. .^^ ^ —> :=H >b s. V F ^ £ Q —> Si -1-; w CTJ LZJ — 1 .0 ■CO H ~= GQ. < Ph WESTERN DUCK. Fuligula Dispar, Steph. From the circumstance of an example of this very rare Duck having been obtained in February 1830 atCaisted near Yarmouth in Norfolk, about which period another specimen was also killed in Denmark, we have much pleasure in figuring it as an interesting addition to our native fauna. The drawing from which our figure of the first-mentioned specimen (now in the Norwich Museum) is taken, was presented by Joseph Clarke, Esq., to the Saffron Walden Natural History Society, in whose Museum it is deposited, and to whom we are indebted for the loan of the drawing. The above is the only instance of its capture in Great Britain, and it appears to be equally rare on the Continent. It is a native of Northern Asia, Siberia, Kamtschatka, and the north-western coasts of America: it is said to breed in high and precipitous rocks, and to fly in extensive flock

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