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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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ble numbers during the winter; and althoughoften seen at table, its flesh is not, we believe, of the most delicate quality. The sexes may be distinguished by the lesser comparative brilliancy of the colours of the female, and byher having the rudiments only of the flowing crest, the colour of which, as well as of the breast, is brown, withfaint traces of the violet gloss so conspicuous in the male, whose plumage may be thus described: The top of the head and the long pendent silky crest rich violet black; neck and chest greenish black;upper part of the plumage glossy brownish black, with very minute grey specks scattered over the scapularies ;speculum of the wings and under surface white ; bill lead colour; nail black ; legs and toes brownish black. The young of the year are devoid of the pendent crest; the whole of the plumage is of a more obscuretint; and the feathers of the upper surface are edged with brown. The plate represents a male and female rather less than the natural size.
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Sis Pi * C0 SCAUP POCHARD. Fuligula marila, Steph.Anas marila, Linn.Le Canard Milouinan. The native residence of the Scaup Duck during the summer season is within the regions of the Arctic circle:it is in these high latitudes that it breeds and rears its young. On the approach of winter it is driven south-ward, and appears in vast nocks in many parts of the European shores, and especially on those of GreatBritain, Holland, France, &c. In its habits it appears to be essentially marine, consequently it is seldom seeneven on the larger of our inland lakes, but our bays and the mouths of rivers are frequented by it during thewinter in considerable abundance : from these its temperate places of refuge it retires early in spring to thelatitudes from whence it came; in fact, so universally is this the case that we do not know of a single instanceof its breeding in our island. We are not acquainted with the details of its nidification, but in this respectit doubtless agrees with the divin

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