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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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sts of aquatic plants, seeds, frogs, and insects. The nest is said to be placed near rivers and marshes. The eggs are reported to be nine or ten in number, to be of a greenish white colour,and to measure two inches and one-eighth in length, by one inch and a half in breadth. Mr. Tarrell believes he has noticed a hybrid between this species and the Pochard. In the adult male the bill is bluish black; irides, bluish white. Head, neck, breast,and flanks, are dull chestnut-colour; back, wings, and tail, umber brown; the primariesbeing of a more dusky shade. Secondaries, white, tipped with black, forming a white 240 FERRUGINOUS DUCK. bar across the wing. Lower breast and belly, yellowish white; vent, gray brown; undertail coverts, white. Legs and toes, as the bill; the membranes being darker. The female differs but little from the male. The head and neck are darker, and thebelly less pure in colour than in the male. The length of the male is about sixteen inches. The female is rather less.
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<!on 241 SCAUP DUCK. SCAUP POCHARD. NORWAY DUCK. WHITE-FACED DUCK, (THE YOUNG.) Fuligula marila, ..... Stephens. Nyroca Gesneri, ...... Wellt/ghbt. Anas marila, ..... Linn^us. Nyroca marila, ...... Montagu. Fuligula. Fuligo—-Soot; from the colour of some of the species.Marila—Sparks that fly from hot coals. Towards the latter end of October, the Scaups begin to arrive on our shores, pre-ferring the low and muddy estuaries of our low-laying rivers, to those of a more picturesqueand bold character. In Ireland it seems to make its appearance at an earlier period.Mr. Thompson stating that it was observed in Belfast Bay, at the end of August, 1837,and from 1838 to 1844, at dates varying from the 14th. to the 29th. of September;the 29th. being the latest date of its first appearance in that district. In BelfastBay they frequently remain as late as the second week in May, before taking theirdeparture for the north, to breed; but some few remain even later, probably withthe intention o

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