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Identifier: britishgamebirds00morr (find matches)
Title: British game birds and wildfowl
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Morris, Beverley Robinson Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Game and game-birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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the bird is skinned. The colour of the iris, as Avell as of the legs,feet, and claws, should be noted. The habits of Sabines Snipe do not appear to differ from those of the common kind.It is found in the same haunts, and along with them; and on one occasion rose incompany with <S. gallinago; on this occasion, too, its cry was the same; though on anotheroccasion, (Captain Bonhams specimen,) it rose without the usual squeak. The bill, which is two inches and three-quarters in length, is dusky, olive brown atthe base; irides, dark brown. The upper parts are of a dusky brown, with narrowbands of pale yellowish brown; primaries, dusky, the shafts black; under parts, rufous 156 sabines snipe. dusky brown, alternately barred with pale yellow brown. The tail, which consists offourteen feathers, (Yarrell says twelve,) is black for half its length; the terminal partbeing ferruginous, with dusky bars. Tibia, feathered to the knees; legs, dusky.Total length, about eleven inches and a quarter.
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157 GBAY-LAG goose. WILD GOOSE. Anser ferns, ...... AIoktagtj. palustris, ...... Flesuxg. Anas anser, ...... Pes^-ast. ferus, ...... Moxtagtt. Oie cendree ou premiere, .... Tesqdkce. Anser—A Goose. Ferus—^Yild. Owing to more than one species of Wild Goose having been frequently mistaken forthe Grav-Lag Goose, it has been commonly supposed to be of much more frequentoccurrence in these islands than is really the case, it being in fact one of our rarestspecies. The Gray-Lag Goose would seem to be the origin from whence most of ourdomestic breed has been obtained; though another species, the White-fronted Goose alsoappears to have some close affinity to, at any rate, some portions of the domesticatedbirds; tame birds occasionally exhibiting the white forehead from which the White-frontedGoose derives its name. Mr. Tarrell has also found in some tame Geese the windpipe flat-tened as in the White-fronted Goose; while generally it is cylindrical, as in the Gray-LagGoose. There can, howe

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