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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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ycolour, which puzzled him very much. He stated that it was the produce of a pairof Swans purchased by a gentleman, living in the neighbourhood of Dublin, a fewyears previously, in London, and whose Cygnets were always white, instead of theordinary gray colour. This peculiarity, in the young birds being of the same colour as the adults, inducedMr. Tarrell to give it the name of immutabilis, or, which does not change; certainlya very suitable name, and one which cannot be appropriated by any of our otherSwans, whose young are all gray for the first two years. 188 POLISH SWAN. In the adult bird, according to Yarrell, the beak is reddish orange; the nail,lateral margins, nostrils, and base of the upper mandible, black; the tubercle, even inthe old male, of small size; the irides, brown; the head, neck, and the whole of theplumage, pure white; legs, toes, and intervening membranes, slate gray. In length, it measures about four feet nine inches. The trachea resembles that of the Mute Swan.
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189 BUDDY SHIELDKAKE. CASARKA SHIELDRAKE. COLLARED DUCK. RUDDY GOOSE. Tadorna rxdila, .... Pallas. Anas rutila, ..... Bewick. Canard KasarJca, .... Tehminck. Tadorna. Quaere, from Adorno—To adorn, on account of its beauty. Rutila—Fiery red. We know of but four specimens of this handsome bird, which have been obtained inthese islands. One in the Newcastle Museum is believed to have been killed at Bry-anstone, near Blandford, Dorset, in the winter of 1776. Another in Mr. Selbyscollection, was obtained in the south of England; another was shot on the Sussex coast,at Iken, in 1834; and the fourth specimen was procured in Ireland, on the 7th. ofJuly, 1847, on the Murrough, a fiat sandy tract near the sea, in the county of Wicklow.This specimen is now in the collection of T. W. Warren, Esq., of Dublin; it is amale, nearly adult. It has not been met with in Scotland. Out of the British Isles it has been obtained in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Hungary,Italy, and the southern parts of Kussi

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