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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
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ive. It has also bred with the Knobbed or Swan Gander, and the Spur-winged Gander. In the adult, the bill is pale brown, having the base, edges, and nail of a muchdarker shade. Irides, yellow: around each eye is a patch of reddish brown. Cheeks,chin, and sides of the neck, yellowish or reddish white. Upper part of the head, backof neck, upper back, scapulars, and tertials, chesnut brown. Primaries, black; secondaries,of a changing green, tipped with black. Wing coverts, white; the lesser ones, tippedwith black. Lower back, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail, black. Front of the neck,breast, and upper belly, pale reddish brown, Avith a patch of chesnut brown on thebreast; lower part of belly, vent, and under tail coverts, pale brown. The legs, feet,and claws are pink. There is a blunt spur on the point of the carpal joint. The female is like the male, but has the tints rather less bright. The weight is about five pounds. In length it measures from two feet two, to two feet four inches.
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