Identifier: naturalhistoryof01phil (find matches)
Title: A natural history of the ducks
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Antinori, 1864; Sassi, 1906; Jagerskiold, 1904). Antinori, however, states that it is morecommon on the Blue than on the White Nile, but I foimd it almost absent there in the winter season.A. E. Brehm (1857) and Kotschy (fide Reichenow, 1900) both met with it at Senaar. Von Heuglin(1873) took young birds in Kordofan, so it presumably breeds in that region. He saw the birdssouth even in Bahr-el-Ghazal, and Antinori states that they are not rare in that section. It has alsobeen noted in Abyssinia where von Heuglin found it on Lake Tana. RuppeU (1845) and Salvadori(1884; 1888) have recorded it from Shoa, and Reid (Ogilvie-Grant and Reid, 1901) saw the birdsin pairs on Lake Ailan near Addis-Ababa, and states that there were large flocks at the junctionof the Moggoi and Hauash Rivers. Von Erlanger in 1905 also found it on the lower Hauash.Whether or not it occurs in eastern Abyssinia or in Somaliland, I am imable to say, but it wouldscarcely be more than a rare bird in this desert region.
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SPUR-WINGED GOOSE 51 In British East Africa the species occurs almost exclusively in the lake region of the southerncentral part. Lonnberg (1912) says it is not found in the dry season, but that it is pretty common inthe wet weather, at Kagio, Fort Hall, Punda Melia, and that it may breed on the BritishBovin River. G. H. Gurney (1909) states that it is common on Lake Naivasha and East Africathe Athi River, while Fischer (1884) has recorded it for Kageji and Lake Naivasha. According toOgilvie-Grant (1901) it has been taken at Buffa Lake. Van Someren (1916) states that it is com-mon, and breeds on Lake Nakuru. Another record for the Athi River is that of Dearborn (1909).In Uganda it has, as far as I know, been found only by van Someren (1916) who has reported it forKasaka and Jinja. It seems that in Tanganyika Province (German East Africa) the species is much more abundant.Schillings (1905) foimd it on the Pangani River and common on the Rufu River, and on the LafittiHUls, as well as so

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