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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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avelled many hundred miles to thelakes; had there hatched and reared her offspring; and had now returned with her littlefamily to share with them the sweets of civilized life. The eggs are six or seven in number, of a dull white, and measure three inches anda third in length, by two inches and a third in breadth. In the adult the bill is black; irides, dark hazel; head and upper half of the neck,black, having a cravat of white extending from behind the ear coverts under the chinand throat; lower neck, white. Primaries, black, as long as the tail. Back, wing coverts,secondaries, and tertials, brown, each feather with a whitish tip; rump, black; uppertail coverts, white; tail, black. Breast and belly, pale brown. Vent and under tailcoverts, white; flanks, pale ashy brown. Legs and feet, dark gray black. Both sexes are alike. The Canada Goose weighs from ten to twelve, and sometimes fourteen pounds. In length it measures full three feet. Dr. Richardson says three feet five or six inches.
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181 HOOPEK. ELK. WHISTLING SWAN. WILD SWAX. Cygnus ferus, .... Eat. Cygnus musieus, .... Bechsieix. Anas cygmts, .... Lrxx-Ers. Anas ferus, ..... Betvick. Cygne saurage, .... Temilcsce:. Cygnus—A Swan. Ferus—Wild. This Swan appears to be the •Wild Swan par excellence of Great Britain, occurringduring the winter months more frequently than an)7 of the other species. In Ireland,however, on the contrary, another species, named in honour of our illustrious Bewick,seems to take its place in the comparative frequency of its occurrence. The Hooper, being only a winter visitor to these islands, spends the breeding-seasonin the northern parts of Europe; being met with during the summer, in pairs, in Lap-land and Russia. Mr. Low states that in his time it used to breed in Orkney. It isnot known to occur out of Europe. The flight of all the Wild Swans is much alike; the birds arranging themselves in thewedge-form, as the Wild Geese mostly do. During their flight, the Hoopers frequentlymay

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