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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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rightest coloured; the ring round the neck is indistinct; thewhite on the chin is less extended than in the male. Thebreast above, brown, the feathers margined with pale chesnutbrown, lower down mottled all over with dusky and palebrown, below white, on the sides and flanks yellowish brown;back above, deep glossy dusky brown, with paler edgings tothe feathers, below dull white. The ridge of the wings iswhite; primaries, greenish black at the ends, light-colouredtowards the base; secondaries, white, tipped with greenishblack, thus exhibiting the speculum. Tail, blackish brown;the upper tail coverts do not descend to the sides with theblack markings; under tail coverts, white. Legs and toes,blackish grey. The young is of duller tints, the upper parts being of two FEEEUGINOIJS DUCK:. shades of brown, and the lower dusky brownish grey; bjdegrees, however, it appears in propria persona. The plate is from a beautiful drawing taken from life byJohn Gatcombe. Esq., of Wyndham Place, Plymouth.
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60 SCAUP. SCAUP DUCK. SCAUP POCHAED. Anns marUa, Pexnant. Montagu. Fuligula mar-ila, Selby. Jknyns. Nyroca marila^ FLEMING. Anoi—A Duck. Marila- TuE native countries of this species are those portions ofthe three continents of the old world, which, under the nameof the Arctic regions, helong to the frozen north. Fromthese it comes southward in the autumn, to meet a milderwinter. To the former category belong Baffins Bay, HudsonsBay, the Bay of Fundy, Greenland, Iceland, Siberia, Lapland,Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Eussia, and to the latter theUnited States, and Mexico, Holland, France, Germany, Italy,and Switzerland: in America it is likewise found on thelarge rivers—the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi. Their preference is for the sea-coast, especially where of alow and muddy character, and from this it advances intolochs near it, estuaries, and the tidal parts of rivers. Thisremark, however, must only be taken as applying to thewinter half of the year. They breed in different pa

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