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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of bluishblack. Primaries, almost black, edged a little way from thetips with bluish grey, at the base light grey on the outerwebs; tertiaries, grey, with white edges, and a crescent ofbluish black at the tip, inside the white margin. The tail,which consists of fourteen feathers, is nearly black, the feathersare almost of a length, so that it is nearly square at theend; upper tail coverts, white, in a crescent shape; undertail coverts, silvery white. The legs, which are short andthick, are, as the toes, claws, and webs, black. The female is like the male. The young have the forehead spotted with black, the whileon the sides of the head interspersed with black feathers: thestreak between the bill and the eye much wider than in theold birds; the grey marks on the sides of the breast darker,and the white not so clear. The back darker, with a tingeof red on the tips of the feathers; the wing coverts similarlymarked; the legs not so dark as in the old .bird, being tingedwith reddish brown.
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135 BRENT GOOSE. Anser brenta, Fleming. Selby. torquatus, Jenyns. inas bernicla, PENNANT. MONTAGU. TeMMINCK. Anser—A. Goose. Brenta— ? These Geese are very plentiful in Denmark, Norway, Sweden,Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Iceland, and othercountries of the north. They visit also France, Germany,Pomerania, and Holland. In America, Captain James Ross noticed them in differentplaces, up to the highest latitudes that have been reached,and in these they breed. They are well known also in theUnited States and Canada, and in the neighbourhood ofHudsons Bay. With us this species is a regular winter visitor, and occursin large multitudes on any parts of the coast that are suitableto them, such as those of Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, and North-umberland. In Yorkshire, it is met with at Sheffield, as also, thoughrarely, in the vicinity of Leeds, and likewise, in hard winters,near Doncaster, and York occasionally, the moors roundHuddersfield, and at the sea-side. In Cambridgeshire several

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