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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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ides and flanks, barred with narrowblack and white lines; central under tail coverts, velvet black; lateral tail coverts, delicatebuff-colour, with a narrow band of velvet black at the base; under surface of tailfeathers, ash gray; legs, toes, and membranes, brownish gray. The female has the whole of the head speckled with dark brown, on a ground colourof light brown; upper part of back and scapulars, dark brown, each feather with two 218 TEAL. narrow transverse bars of buffy brown; wing, like the male, but the speculum has morevelvet black, less green, and no purple colour. Chin, pale brown; lower part of neck onthe front and sides, varied with two shades of brown, in crescentic marks; breast, white;sides, flanks, and under tail coverts, dull white, spotted with dark brown.—Yarrell. The males, during the summer, assume the dress of the females, which they retaintill the autumn moult. The weight of the male is about twelve ounces. In length it measures a little over fourteen inches.
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219 WIGMEOtf. WIDGEOX. WHEW. WHISTLER. GOLDEX-HEADED WIGEOX. Anas penelope, .... Jjlssmus. 2Iareca Jistularis, .... Stephens. Canard siffleur, .... TEiinrycE. Anas—A Duck. Penelope—A Wigecm, (Pltnt.) Ixxtmerable Wigeon come to this country during the season of frost and snow, andlarge numbers of them meet with hut a sorry reception; their advent being thesignal for a general crusade against them, with guns of all descriptions, from the lightshoulder gun to the large swivel gun, which will carry a pound of large shot or slugsfor one hundred and fifty yards. Tbey make their appearance in this country, a few,as earlv as the end of August; but the great mass does not arrive until the end ofSeptember, or early in October. They continue with us during the winter, and taketheir departure in March and April. Some, however, remain to breed in the extremenorth of Scotland—in Sutherlandshire, among the numerous lakes of which county theyfind suitable nesting-places. \Tigeon are met with in

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