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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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mandible is dusky on the innerpart, the remainder greyish blue black, and paler than in themale; the feathers about the bill pale yellowish, or whitish;iris, yellow. The crest is small, but partially developed inold birds, and deep rufous brown in colour. The breast onthe centre part is yellowish white, but dull, being tinged withgrey, or pale greyish brown, below white, with faint wavesof pale brown; back, blackish brown, the feathers on the sidestipped with a paler shade. The speculum white; under tailcoverts, white, speckled and barred with pale brown. Legsand toes, greyish blue black, paler than in the male. The young bird resembles the female: the forehead variedwith white, the head dark brown, at first without, afterwardswith a slight tuft or crest; the upper part of the breast deepbrown, below white; the back brown, more deeply borderedwith paler brown. The speculum is indistinct. After themoult the males turn much darker, and lose the white feathersabout the base of the bill.
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77 LONG-TAILED DUCK. NORTHERN HARELD. CALLOO. COAL-AND-CANDLE-LTGHT.LONG-TAILED SHIELDRAKE. SHARP-TAILED DUCK. ^nas glacialis. Pennant. Montagu. (Jlangula glacialis, Fleming. Seluy. Aims—A Duck. Glacialis—Belonging to ice. This is yet another of those hardy birds which revel inthe cold of the extreme north. It is a well-defined andhandsome species. They are very plentiful in the hyperborean regions—Iceland,Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, and others, and on the Europeancontinent are found in Russia, Denmark, Norway, Laj)land,and Sweden, along the shores of the mainland, as well asamong, the islands of the Baltic. They have been known,too, in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Holland.In America they are equally abundant in Greenland and theNorth Georgian Islands, Labrador, Hudsons Bay, and aboutNewfoundland, and come southwards, in winter, as far asCarolina; likewise in the northern parts of Asia—Kamtschatkaand others. They frequent the offing of the sea-coast, and at times the

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