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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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tail coverts, long, of ahair-like texture at . the sides, over which they descend, and of a deep black, glossedwith green; back, dusky bronze, reflecting green. Scapulars, black; tail, tapering, darkglossy green above; below, dusky; primaries, dusky, silvery hoary without, tipped withviolet blue; secondaries, greenish blue, tipped with white; wing coverts, violet blue,tipped with black; vent, dusky; legs and feet, yellowish red; claws, strong and hooked. 214 SUMMER DUCK. The female has the head slightly crested; crown, dark purple; behind the eye, a barof -white; chin and throat, for two inches, also white; head and neck, dark drab; breast,dusky brown, marked with large triangular spots of white; back, dark glossy bronzebrown, with some gold and greenish reflections. Speculum, of the wing, nearly the sameas in the male, but the fine penciling of the sides, and the long hair-like tail covertsare wanting; the tail is also shorter.-—Wilson. The male measures nineteen inches in length.
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215 TEAL. COMMOX TEAL. Anas erecca, ..... LrswiEUS. Qaerqiiedula erecca, ..... Stephens.Canard SarceUe dMiter, . . . Tehihs:ck. Anas—A Duck. Crecca—From Mreko—To make a harsh, creaking noise. TTho that has wandered during the autumnal and winter months, alonsr the banks ofalmost any of our quiet little country streams, particularly if moderately wooded, hasnot heen gratified by seeing the hasty flight of this, our smallest, Duck. It flies, however.but a short distance, and again plashes down suddenly into some quiet little pool, againto be disturbed by the approaching footstep. The Teal is very generally distributedover the whole country, preferring inland lakes and rivers, to the vicinity of the sea-shore, though in some suitable localities they are to be met with in large flocks on thesalt water. Thus, Mr. Thompson says, that small flocks of forty or fifty usually appearin Belfast Bay, from August to November, when they retire inland; and if the frost isso severe as to freeze

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