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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
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e plumage appears not to be completed till the thirdyear. Sir William Jardine writes, In another specimen furtheradvanced, we have the under parts still pure, all the upperplumage darker, and advancing further on the neck andbreast, sparingly intermingled with the black and whitenuptial plumes, particularly on the wings; the tail tippedwith white; the bill slightly darker than in the last. Inthe third specimen, when we are inclined to believe that theperfect plumage is going off, we have the head and neckdark, clouded with grey above, and very much waved withwhite on the chin and throat, the striated collar distinctlyapparent; the under surface pure white, the upper with alarge proportion of the distinct white marking, but inter-mixed, particularly along the middle line of the back, withapparently new dark feathers, having grey margins as in theyoung. The plate is from a drawing by John Gatcombe, Esq., ofWyndham Place, Plymouth. It is one of the best figuresof a bird I have ever seen.
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^^^S^j^ hiih I /,.ghffg»f BLACK-THROA. 135 BLACK-THROATED DIVER. LESSER IMBER. NORTHEBN DOUCKER. SPECKLED LOOl^T. Colymbus arcticus, Linnaeus. Cohpnhus—A Diver. ^/t^/cms—Belonging to tlie Arctic region. This beautiful Diver is common in i^orway on the lakeson the higher parts of the mountains, and the same remarkapplies to Finland, Sweden, and Lapland. It is noticedbesides in Holland, Russia, Germany, France, Switzerland,and Italy; and belongs also to Asia, being seen in Siberia,Kamtschatka, and Japan; and in America occurs from Hud-sons Bay to the United States, but in the latter not socommonly as in the more northern districts. A specimen of the Black-throated Diver was killed nearPurfleet, on the Thames, the 21st. of January, and another,a male, on Barton Pond, Norfolk, the end of January, 1850;one also, an adult male, about the middle of January, 1848,on the River Wensum, at Taverham; a pair on one of theBroads in the year 1832. In Essex, one at Chesterford,the middle of Janu

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