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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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bly abundant, particularly in the midland and southern counties, giving a decided preferenceto low marshes and fenny districts. Its food consists of aquatic vegetables of various kinds, small snails, &c.Its weight generally varies from five to seven pounds, and as an article for the table it is not surpassed byanv of its tribe, its flesh being finely flavoured and tender. Bill pale flesh-colour, nail pure white; forehead white; head, neck, and upper part of the chest greyishbrown ; breast, belly, and abdomen black marked with irregular bars and blotches of white ; back brown, eachfeather being margined with greyish white ; wing-coverts grey edged with white ; quills dark greyish black ;vent and upper tail-coverts white ; middle tail-feathers grey, with white tips, the remainder becominggradually lighter, to the outer ones, which are wholly white; legs and toes orange; claws whitish. The Plate represents an adult and a young bird of the year about three fourths of the natural size.
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