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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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the white spot over the eye mottled with grey, the lineextending over the eye obscure, and the edging of the occiputfaint reddish brown; bill, dusky. Head and neck, dull leadenblue, the crown darker; the two white marks exist on theneck, but are merely edged with darker blue; there are someindications of the white collar, and the band before the wingis marked, but much smaller than in the adult bird. In the 86 HARLEQUIN DUCK. third year the white collar is still incomplete, but all thewhite markings of the neck are edged with black. In thethird year the sides of the breast are dark brownish grey,waved with yellowish red bars; the fore part is dull grey,the middle yellowish grey, spotted with bluish grey. Theback greyish brown; primaries, dark brown; secondaries, nottipped with white. Tail, bluish grey, the end lighter coloured;in the third year the tail is becoming glossy bluish black;upper tail coverts, dusky—they turn to glossy bluish blackin that year. Legs and toes, lead-colour.
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87 GOLDEN-EYE. COMMON GOLDEN-ETE. GAREOT. RATTLE-WINGS.GOLDEN-EYE DUCK. Anas clangula, glaucion,Clangula vulgaris, chrysophthahnus. Pennant. Montagu. BhWlCK. Fleming. Selbv.• Jenyns, Anas—A Duck. Clangula. Clango-^To sound as a trumpet. The Golden-Eye is found in Iceland and the Ferroe Islands,and throughout Russia, Denmark, Lapland, Sweden, Norway,and Holland. It occurs also in Germany, Switzerland,Prussia, Saxony, Silesia, Hungary, Italy, and France. Itbelongs likewise to the northern parts of Asia, from Tartary,Persia, and the Caucasus, to Japan. It is said also to belongto North America. They breed in the different countries of Scandinavia, andthis not only in natural situations, but also in boxes placedfor them by the inhabitants for the purpose. The localities these birds frequent are principally the seacoasts, near the mouths of rivers, but also the borders ofinland lakes, ponds, and streams, not those that are rapidand turbulent, but such as belong to the scenes described

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