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
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have led many authorities to accept some of them at least as being cases of sporadicflights. We have here, I believe, a situation analogous to that presented by the appearance of theRuddy Sheldrake in large numbers outside its usual range. In the British Isles eighty Nile Geese are said to have once appeared in Hampshire; three were shotnear Glasgow in 1832, and others have been taken in Durham, Somerset, Cornwall, Norfolk, Suffolk,European Devonshire, Berkshire, Westmoreland, Cambridge, Hampshire, Northumberland,records Dorset, Kent, Sussex and Oxford (F. O. Morris, 1903). In Ireland the species has ap- peared at least a dozen times, sometimes in considerable parties (Ussher and Warren, 1900). Ac-cording to G. R. Gray (1871) very many appeared in south Scotland in 1832, while twelve were seenon the Tyne in 1846, and flocks were observed in 1865 and 1867 in the Montrose Basin. On the con-tinent these birds have been repeatedly seen in Germany. A large flock is said to have appeared in
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EGYPTIAN GOOSE 189 Anhalt in 1770 (Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., vol. 47, p. 115, 1899). Others have been seen ortaken in Alsace (Schneider, Ornis, vol. 3, p. 546, 1887), near Gotha (Hertwig, Ornith. Monatsschr.,p. 167, 1888), near Offenbach on the Main (Preuschen, Ornis, vol. 7, p. 494, 1891), between Weseland Emmerich (Hartlaub, Journ. f. Ornith., vol. 35, p. 268,1887), in Westphalia (Landois, Zool. Gart.,p. 251,1871), near Breslau, Karlsruhe and Heidenheim (Altum, Journ. f. Ornith., vol. 25, p. 107,1877)and recently a flock appeared (October, 1910) in Silesia (Kollibay, Ornith. Monatsschr., p. 3, 1915).There are also several records for Belgium, the species having been taken at Namur in 1835 and atLiege in 1837 (Degland, 1849), near Arlon in 1846 (de la Fontaine, 1868) at Wyneghem in 1870 andat Herinnes in 1906 (Dubois, 1912). Paris (1911) gives the departments of Sa6ne-et-Loire, Eure-et-Loir, Calvados and Allier as localities in which Egyptian Geese have been taken. To these migh

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