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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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e front of the neck and under parts of a pure white; the back and sides barred with delicate zigzag lines of black and grey; the speculum purple green, bordered above with rufous, and below with white ; the scapulars long and pointed, overhanging the quill-feathers, mostly of a deep velvet black with light grey edges; the two middle tail-feathers of a greenish black, considerably elongated and tapering; the beak blackish blue; irides light brown; feet dull reddish. The female is known by her smaller size, and by the head and neck being of a light rufous dotted with small spots of black; all the upper parts blackish brown, marked with regular crescent-shaped spots of reddish yellow; the lower parts reddish yellow, spotted with light brown ; speculum reddish brown, bordered above with yellowish, below with white ; tail conical. In the months of August and September the males resemble the females in the colour of the plumage. We have figured a male and female two thirds of the natural size.
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* 1 Genus CHAULIODES. Gen. Char. Bill as short as the head, depressed throughout its length, as broad as high at the base, rather narrowing towards the tip, which has a small dertrum or nail; both mandibles laminated, the laminae of the upper one projecting beyond the margins of the bill. Nostrils lateral, near the base of the bill, oval and pervious. Wings long and acuminate. Tail wedge-shaped. Feet with four toes, three before and one behind; thehind toe small and free. GADWALL. Anas strepera, Linn. Chauliodes strepera, Swains. Le Canard chipeau. Though the colours of this elegant Duck are more sober than those of most of the family, it yields to none in the tasteful disposition of its markings, and to few in the excellence of its flesh for the table. The European species to which it is nearest allied is the Common Widgeon (Anas Penelope), and we can scarcely see the necessity of creating a new genus for its reception from which the Widgeon is excluded: we have, however, given Mr. Swainsons g

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