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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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covered with small reddish dots ; speculum white,banded with a line of black ; under parts pure white ; beak blueish black; irides clear pearl white ; tarsiblueish ash colour ; webs black. The female has the head, neck, breast and sides of a dull brown, inclining to chestnut; the under parts ofan obscure brown, each feather having a light brown termination; and is destitute of the dark brown collarround the neck. The young of the year have the top of the head blackish brown, all the feathers of the upper parts edgedwith reddish brown, and the white of the under part clouded with a lighter tinge of the same colour. The trachea of the male is very narrow at the top, and also just before its termination in the inferiorlarynx, but of double the diameter at the middle : the inferior larynx is formed of an osseous wall on theright side, and on the left presents a series of bony ramifications supporting an external membrane. We have figured a male and female two thirds of their natural size.
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M o S r5 si ■SI RED-CRESTED DUCK. Anas rufina, Pall.Fuligula rufina, Steph.Le Canard siffleur huppe. The very fine Duck which we have illustrated in the accompanying Plate is as yet but little known as havingclaim to a place in the Fauna of Great Britain; but the frequent occurrence of both sexes in various parts ofthe British Islands sufficiently establishes it as a native species, or at least as much so as many others thatoccasionally migrate to this country. English examples of this beautiful species form a part of the collections of the Hon. W. T. T. Fiennesand Mr. Yarrell. The former gentleman possesses a fine female, killed out of a flock of eighteen, on theThames, near his own estate at Erith in Kent, and to whose kindness we are indebted for the loan of thespecimen from which our figure was taken. The Anas rufina is confined to the old continent, where its range is very extensive, as is proved by ourhaving received it in collections from the Himalaya mountains, and observed

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