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Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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s II. webs of the next are a fine green, and thofe ofthe three fucceeding orange; the coverts of the tailare white ; the tail itfelf of the fame color, and ex-cept the two outmoft feathers tipt with black; thebelly v/hite, divided lengthways by a black line •the legs of a pale flefh color. Thefe birds inhabit the fea coafts, and breed inrabbet holes. When a perfon attempts to taketheir young, the old birds fhew great addrefs indiverting his attention from the brood; they willfly along the ground as if wounded, till the for-mer are got into a place of fecurity, and then returnand colled them together. From this inftin&ivecunning, Turner, with good reafon, imagines themto be the chenalopex *, or fox-goofe of the antients:the natives of the Orknies to this day call them theflygoofe, from an attribute of that quadruped. Theylay fifteen or fixteen eggs, white, and of a roundifhlhape. In winter they colled: in great flocks,Their flefh is very rank and bad. * Plinii, Lib. X. c, 22* le#
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Class II. MALLARD. 59 * Les Canards et les Canes. Be/on av. \6o.Anas fera torquata minor.Anas domeltica. Gcfncr av. 113, 96.^/•. «*>. III. S3? 85.Common wild Duck and Mallard. Common tame Duck. Wil. cm. 371, 380.Raii jyn. a<v. 145, 150.Le Canard domeftique, le Canard fauvage. Briffon a<v. VI 308, 318.Einheimifche ent. Stock ent. Kram, 341. Anitra, Anitra falvatica, Ci- fone. Zinan. 105, 106.Anas boichas. Anas domef- tica. Lin. fyft. 205.Gras-and, Blanacke. Faun. Succ. fp. 131.Fera, Nor<vegis Blaaehals v. Grres-And, aliis Stok-And. Dams Vild-And. Brun- 7iicb, 8j.DomeiUca, Dams Tam-And. ibid. 88.Wilde Ente. Frifch, II. 158. fcemina. 159.Br. Zool. 155.Ratza. ScopcUy No. yj. , 279. Mal-lard. THE mallard ufually weighs two pounds andan half: the length is twenty-three inches;the breadth thirty-five: the bill is of a yellowifhgreen : the head and neck are of a deep and fhininggreen : more than half round the lower part of theneck is an incomplete circle of white : the upperpa

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