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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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are pure white, and measure, in length, three inches and an eighth, by twoinches and a quarter in breadth. In the adult the bill measures one inch and five-eighths in length; narrow and small 166 PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. towards the tip; from the base to the nostrils it is black; the remainder, pink, exceptthe nail which is black: irides, dark brown. Head and neck, cinereous brown; lowerneck, lighter. Back, scapulars, wing coverts, and tertials, gray brown, edged and tippedwith yellowish white. Rump, dark gray; upper tail coverts, pure white. Tail feathers,fourteen in number, gray, edged and tipped with white; primaries, bluish gray, theshafts white; secondaries, darker—nearly black. Feathers of the breast and belly,yellowish gray, with lighter edges; those on the sides and thighs are gray, with broadbrownish white tips. Vent, under tail coverts, and under surface of tail, white. Legsand feet, livid pink; claws, black. The length of the adult male is two feet four to two feet five inches.
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w CO O RW H o WH 167 WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. LAUGHING GOOSE. TORTOISE-SHELL GOOSE. MOUNTAIN GOOSE. Anser allifrom, ...... PEirarAST. Anser eri/thropus, ...... Selby. Anas erythropus, ...... Lixxjefs. Oie rieuse, ou a front Mane, ..... Tejijiixck. Anser—A Goose. Alius—White. Frons—The forehead. Although not our commonest Wild Goose, the White-fronted Goose is by no meansrare; occurring frequently in large flocks. It has been obtained in many of our Englishcounties; all along the south coast; in Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire,Durham, and Northumberland. In Scotland it has been procured in Dumfriesshire, Edinburgh, and is a rare wintervisitor in Sutherlandshire. In Ireland it is very common, and arrives there early in the season, according toMr. J. Watters. In Lapland and Sweden it is very abundant. It also occurs in Italy, Holland, France,and Germany; and has also been procured in Japan, Northern and Arctic America, andin Kentucky. As an article of food it is, like t

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