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Title: The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bingley, William, 1774-1823
Subjects: Birds Zoology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Edgewood Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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as well as temperate parts of Siberia; in winter passing southas far as Italy, and along the coasts of the Mediterranean. InAmerica they are found in all the secluded reedy lakes of the moun-tainous and woody districts, in the remote fur countries around Ilud-Bons Bay. This species is also common in some parts of England,•where it is known by the provincial name of Cargoose, or GauntThey breed in the meres of Shropshire and Cheshire, and in the eastern fen of Lincolnshire. They also pass the period of reproductionin some of the Scottish Isles, particularly in Zetland, and are abund-ant in Germany, Ilolland, and France. In the United States they areonly seen in winter, proeeeding leisurely towards the south, as theseverity of the season increases, often migrating by water, ratherthan on the wing, and keeping generally at no great distance fromthe sea, or tide-water estuaries, thus securing their retreat from th*•urprise of sudden and severe frost. THE CRESTED GKEBE, OR GAUiNT. VM.^
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CTESTED GREBE AND YOrNO. The nest of the Crested Grebe, concealed among the reeds and flagsof tie i.onds hilhieh thev dwell in the summer, is made of rushes, andSL 1 raq L c ler contiguous to the chosen spot, and so con- struc?eTas oSn to floal abont^n the rise of the f^-^^f\^^:ifj: hich penetrates it, notwithstanding which the ^^^^^)^;ZTt^fastly on the floating habitation, defended f ^^^^^^^ ^ °^^^^^^^ The e-s,the Lter, by the density of her oily and ^^^^^ P/ f ^/^e soifedthree or four, are of a whitish-green, Avaved or, as ^^ ,were souevi^h deep biwn. The young are fed with small eels and fry. 0J4 THE LITTLE GREBE, OR DABCHICK. Their food consists of fish, fry, coleoptera, marine worms, and often,part, of vegetables. In Canada, from their remarkable agilitj^ in m jiving, they are known by the name of Water Witches, and arehere called Dinpers, as they plunge beneath the water on the leastjppearanco of aanger, depending very little on their wings fur safety ;ind when most disturbed s

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