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Identifier: birdsEuropeVGoul (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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and posteriorly with a line of white;a row of coverts, which are internally edged with tawny yellow and externally with black, hang over the wing;rump and upper and under tail-coverts greenish black; two middle tail-feathers black, the rest pale brown,margined with white; a mark of buff separates the green under tail-coverts from the lower part of the belly,which is greyish white; bill olive brown, more yellow at the base; feet dark olive brown. The female has the head and neck pale buff minutely spotted with small markings of black; the uppersurface blackish brown, each feather having a margin of tawny brown; chest reddish brown, each featherbeing darker in the centre; shoulders of the wing as in the male; speculum green above with purple reflec-tions passing into black, and edged with white; quills and tail brown; the feathers of the latter edged withtawny white ; under surface greyish white ; legs more inclined to orange. The Plate represents a male and female of the natural size.
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111 f==l cd o / * / GARGANY TEAL. Anas Querquedula, Linn.Querquedula circia, Steph.Le Canard sarcelle det6. The feathers pendent from the back of this little Duck, together with its chaste and sober plumage, render itone of the most interesting and graceful species of its family. In point of affinity it has many characters incommon with the genuine Teal, with which genus it has been by previous authors associated. It must be al-lowed, however, that it possesses some features in the style and markings of its plumage which are not in strictunison with the birds of that genus : this circumstance, and a slight deviation in the form of the bill, will in allprobability hereafter lead to a further subdivision of the genus ; in which case the Gargany, the Blue-wingedTeal of America, and others, will form a minor group by themselves. The range of the Gargany over the Old World is very considerable, being dispersed over the whole of Asiaand Northern Africa, appearing to give preference to mount

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