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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 ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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the back, and the rump,uniform light bluish gray; upper tail coverts, white; tail feathers, lead gray, tipped withwhite; chin, neck in front, and the breast, of a lighter gray colour than the back ofthe neck; the belly, and all the under surface of the body, white; sides, flanks, andthighs, barred with ash colour and grayish white; under tail coverts, and the undersurface of the tail feathers, white. Legs, toes, and membranes, dull flesh-colour; theclaws, black. Very old birds have irregular blackish markings over the lower part of the breast andbelly, according to Temminck and Mr. Thompson. The females are rather smaller than the males. The young birds differ only in having all the tints of a darker shade. Both sexes have a hard callous knob at the point of the wing. The length of the male is about thirty-five inches. The female measures but thirtyinches. We are indebted to Mr. D. Graham, the talented and trustworthy taxidermist of York,for the specimen from which our plate is taken.
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161 BEAN GOOSE. WILD GOOSE. Anser segetum, ..... Jentns. Anser ferns, ...... Fleming. Anas segetum, ..... Peknant. Oie vulgaire, ...... Tehiiixce. Anser—A Goose. Segetum—Of corn-fields. This handsome Goose is one of the most common of its tribe in its occurrence in thiscountry, and -we have no doubt that it has very commonly been considered the Gray-LagGoose, by sportsmen and others who were not well acquainted with the distinctive charactersof the two species. To most of this country it is only a winter visitant, and disappearswith the first approach of spring. In Sutherlandshire it may, however, be foundduring the breeding-season; and numerous pairs have been seen with their broods onLoch Shin, Loch Laighal, and Loch Waver. It also breeds in the Hebrides, in Lewis,and Harris. Mr. Tarrell states, that a few pairs, it is said, breed annually inSunbiggin Tarn, near Orton, in Westmorland. In Ireland it is common in winter. On the continent, this Goose is found in Northern Europe, an

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