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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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il of eighteen feathers; the four middle ones, deepblack, and curled upwards; the other feathers are of an ashy brown, with white edges.Lesser wing coverts, brownish ash; the greater coverts tipped with deep velvety black,inside which is a white bar. Primaries, brownish ash; the speculum, of a rich lightpurple, reflecting green and violet, and bounded with a black bar tipped with white.Tertials, light reddish brown, very broad, and with pointed ends. Belly and sides,gray, marked transversely by numerous narrow waving darker lines. Under tail coverts,black. Legs and feet, orange colour. The female has the bill of a blacker tinge; the upper parts of a dark brown, thefeathers with a broad edge of light brown. Chin and throat, pale brown; lower partsof a pale yellowish brown, streaked and spotted with dark brown. Legs and feet asin the male. The Mallard weighs about two pounds and a half, and measures two feet in length. The female weighs less, and measures also two inches less in length.
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209 GAECtAiXEY teal. SUMMER TEAL. GARGANEY. GARGANEY DUCK. AFRICAN TEAL. Anas querquedula, ...... Lnnrjeos. Querquedula circia, ....... Siephexs. Sarcette (Fete, ....... Teiqiixce. Anas—-A Duck. Querquedula—A water-fowl called a Teal. The Garganey is one of onr most elegant and chastely coloured Ducks, and from itsusually appearing in this country only during the spring and summer mouths, andoccasionally breeding with us, it has obtained the name of Summer Teal. Mr. Tarrellstates that he has seen specimens as late as October, and Mr. Knox says that immaturebirds are not unfrequenfly met with in winter, on the coast of Sussex, but that adidts,especially males, are rare. It has been obtained in Cornwall, but rarely; two occurrences are noted by W. P.Cocks, Esq., in The Naturalist, vol. L, p. 138. Iu Devon also rarely. In Essex; inHertfordshire, near Tring, where several specimens were procured by J. Williams, Esq.,of Tring Park, at the end of March, in 1849. It has also occurred in

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