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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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a few specks of white, thetips of the feathers having a triangular-shaped mark of thatcolour; primaries, dusky black; the tertiaries have a squarepatch of white on each side of the shaft, by which a seriesof bars is formed across. Tail, nearly black, the sides greenishblack; under tail coverts, dusky. Legs and toes, dark blackishbrown in front, paler on the inside with a reddish tinge.Webs, pale dusky. This species experiences a partial moult in the spring, and 138 BLACK-TIIEOATED DIVER. the black on the throat is at first varied witli some whitofeathers. The female is a little less than the male. In the birds first year, the head and neck on the backare grey; throat, white; back, deep brownish grey, margmedwith lighter grey. At the next moult the head and nape become pui-er grey,and some black feathers shew themselves on the liind part ofthe neck. The back becomes darker, and a few black leathersbecome apparent here also. The full plumage is not attained till the end of the thudyear.
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139 TvED-THROATED DIVER. SPJJAT LOON. llAi:^ GOOSE. SPECKLED DIYEB, (tOUXCI.) Coymbus septentrionalis, Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. sie/ldtus, Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. striutus, Gmehn. Colymhus—k Diver. Septentrionalis—QeXowging to the north. The Red-throated Diver is another very fine and striking-looking^ bird. In Norway it is a very common species, and is to be seenon most of the lakes and fiords, both salt-water and fresh,but chiefly where the latter prevails. It also belongs toFinland, Lapland, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and Kamtschatka,the Ferroe Isles, and Iceland, and has been taken on thecoasts of Holland, France, and Italy, Greece, and in Switzer-land. In Asia, M. Temmiuck assigns it to Japan, and it issaid also to occur in Siberia, Tartary, and along the shoresof the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azoff.Likewise in America in various parts of the northern halfof the continent, on the shores of Labrador, Boothia, theBay of Fundy, Hudsons Bay, the Bay of Boston, a

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