Identifier: historyofbritish07morr (find matches)
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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inch. The form of the bill readily distinguishesthis species. It is gradually bent upwards to the tip whichis slightly reflected. The under bill reddish at the base,the tip, and the whole of the upper bill, black; the tip isslightly bent; the base flattened. Iris, rich deep orange red,the eyelids edged with the same colour; behind the eye isa triangular-shaped patch, presently described; forehead, sootyblack. The head on the sides has two tufts of long narrowfeathers of pale yellow or bufl, passing into deep orangechesnut. Crown, neck on the back, and nape, shining V22 EAEED GREBE. black; chin, speckled with grey; throat, deep shining greyishblack. Breast, silky white, the sides shaded with duskyand deep chesnut red. Back, dark brown. The wings measure one foot ten inches across whenextended. The secondaries are tipped with white, mostvisible when the wing is open. The legs are in front duskygreenish, and behind greenish ash-colour. The female, (generally speaking, resembles the male.
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123 DABCHICK. DOBCniCK. LITTLE GREBE. BLACK-CHTNIS-Ep aREBE.DIDAPPEE. DIJCKER. DIPPER. SMALL DOUCKER. LOOJS. Colynibus Hebridicus, Gmelin. Fodiceps minor. Pennant. Montagu. Ilebridicus, MoNXAGU. Bewick. Colymbus—A Diver. iZe6nrf/cMs—Belonging to the Hebrides. This small species is common in Europe, in Switzerland,and is found in France, Italy, Holland, and Germany. It is noticed also at the Cape of Good Hope, and inother parts of South Africa. In Asia it appears to existlikewise in the same latitudes. The Dabchick is very generally distributed over the BritishIslands, and though more commonly seen perhaps in winterthan in summer, appears both in the extreme north and thefarthest south at all seasons. Its natural home is the water, both the open lake and thevillage pond, the gently flowing river and the still pool, thenarrow streamlet and at times the edge of the open sea.In winter, when the frost has shut the door of its naturallarder, it betakes itself to the salt water, if withi

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