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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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es, brown. The secondaries have the speculum on theouter webs green, edged with black above and below. Thetertiaries are blackish brown, with a tinge of green on theouter webs and brown on the inner, bordered with white.Tail, brown—it is slightly pointed, the middle feathers beingelongated; upper tail coverts, brown, barred with paler brownand white; under tail coverts, brownish black, with a tinge ofgreen. Legs and toes, dark brown; webs, dark brown. The female is in length about one foot nine inches. Head,crown, and neck, yellowish v/hite, thickly speckled with black.The breast with very little rufous. Back, dark brown, edgedand faintly barred with pale brown and white. The young male at first resembles the female, and does notacquire his full distinctive plumage till the second year. Wilsonsays these birds are subject to a regular change every springand autumn. It appears that the Act of Uniformity isinfringed by most, if not all, of the males of the Duck tribe. 1,. Pit if mi •
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35 EIDER DUCK. EIDER. COMMON EIDER. ST. CUTHBEET S DUCK. COLK.GREAT BLACK AND WHITE DUCK. Anas moUissima, LiNN.EUS. Somateria mol/issimaf Fleming. Selby. Anser lanuginosus, Brisson. Anas—A. Duck. JfoZ&sima—Most soft. The native haunts of the Eider are the frozen regions othe north—Greenland abounds with them, and they arenunrerous on the coast of Labrador, in North America, andall about Baffins Bay and Davis Straits. Their southernmostrange appears to be as far as Mayne and New York, in theUnited States. In Europe they are plentiful about the shores of Norway,Sweden, Lapland, Denmark, and Schleswig Holstein; Iceland,Spitzbergen, the Ferroe Isles, Nova Zembla, and other partswithin the Frigid Zone: a few occur in Holland and France.In i sia the species ranges in the same latitudes. Many breed off the Northumbrian coast, on the FernIslands, and Coquet Island, but they are far less numerousthan they used to be, having been much molested duringthe breeding-season. A few have occ

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