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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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g a rich speculum, the terminal portions white; each 2 G 226 stellers western duck. tertial feather white on the inner web, rich blue on the outer web, and curved down-wards towards the end; wing coverts, white; scapulars elongated, and like the tertials, with the narrow inner web, white; the broader outer web, rich blue; chin and throat, rich brown; below the broad bluish-black collar is a narrow collar of white, the colour extending over the sides of the neck to each wing; just below the point of the wing *some of the white feathers have black at the tip, forming a dark patch; middle of breast and belly, rich chestnut brown; passing off into a buff colour on the front, sides, and flanks; vent and under tail coverts, dark brown; legs, toes, and their membranes, black; the hind toe with a deep lobe.—Yarrell. The female has the greater coverts and the secondaries tipped with white, forming two bars, enclosing between them a bluish-black speculum. The male measures nineteen inches in length.
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o I— S3 227 KING DUCK. KING EIDER. Somateria spectabilis, .... Fleming. Anas spectabilis, .... Linnaeus. Canard à tête grise, .... Temminck. Somateria. Quære, Soma—A body, and Pteron—A wing; on account of its heavy flight. Spectabilis—Worthy of notice. This large and very handsome Duck is extremely rare in this country; it was introduced into our list on the authority of the late Mr. Bullock, who informed Colonel Montagu, that he had met with it breeding on Papa Westra, one of the Orkney Islands, towards the end of June. One specimen was killed in 1827, upon the coast of Suffolk, at Aldborough; and was in the collection of J. D. Hoy, Esq., of Stoke-by-Nayland; we are not aware of any other specimen having been procured in England; but in Ireland, Mr. Thompson mentions four individuals as having been obtained; one at Kings-town Harbour, near Dublin, about the 1st. of October, 1837, which is now in the Dublin University Museum: another in the winter of 1843, at Derrynane, celebra

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