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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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The food ofthe Golden Eve is the same, for which its strong beak, tapering from a thick base, is well constructed.The colour of its plumage also partakes of the same character as the Smew, exhibiting a contrast of blackand white in the male, and dark grey and white in the female. The bill of the Golden Eye is black; irides fine golden yellow; neck glossy greenish black, with the exceptionof a large white spot at the base of the bill; back and tail black ; a band of white crosses the wings, leavingthe shoulders and quills black ; legs dull orange ; webs darker. The female is considerably less than the male,and has the bill yellow towards the point; head and upper part of the neck rusty brown, below which is aring of greyish white ; breast mottled with grey, upper parts dark cinereous ; tail and under parts as in themale. The weight is nearly two pounds, the length seventeen or eighteen inches. Our Plate represents a male and female, faithfully figured, two thirds of their natural size.
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5? erf BARROWS DUCK. Clangula Barrovii, Swains, and Rich. A fine male of this rare and beautiful species having been shot in Iceland by T. C. Atkinson, Esq. of New-castle-upon-Tyne, when on a visit to that country, about two years since, we have much pleasure in figuringit as an occasional inhabitant of the European portion of the globe. Mr. Atkinsons specimen is now depo-sited in the Museun of the Newcastle Natural History Society. Although very nearly allied to the GoldenEye (Clangula vulgaris), it possesses, nevertheless, many characters by which it may be distinguished fromthat species. For our first knowledge of the Clangula Barrovii we are indebted to that highly interestingwork the Fauna Boreali-Americana of Messrs. Swainson and Richardson ; and as the observations of thelatter gentleman were taken on the spot, we cannot do better than extract what he has recorded in the workabove mentioned. Notwithstanding, says Dr. Richardson, the general similarity in the form and markings o

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