Identifier: handbookofbritis00hart (find matches)
Title: A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, J.C. Nimmo
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he colour has been observedto change from red to yellow from excitement (seeStevenson, Birds of Norfolk, vol. iii. p. 207). The weight also will vary, according to age, from2 lbs. to 2 lbs. 6 oz. WHITE-EYED POCHARD or FERRUGINOUS DUCK. Fuligula nyroca vel jerruginea (Gmelin). PI. 29,figs. 7, 8. Length, 16 in.; bill, 2-25 in.; wing, 775in.; tarsus, Il in. A spring visitant, generally to the eastern countiesof England between the Thames and the Humber.The east of England would therefore appear to bethe western limit of its regular migration, the fewindividuals which have been killed more to thewestward being stragglers. R. Gray, in his Birdsof the West of Scotland, p. 385, says, I know ofbut one instance of the occurrence of this bird inany part of Scotland. In Ireland this Duck has occurred in winter onthe Dublin coast (Blake Knox, Zool., 1871, p. 2645),two on the east coast in 1879 (Payne Gallwey,Fowler in Ireland, p. 101), one on the estate of 1 This is the case also with the Grebes.
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DUCKS 2 51 Sir William Alexander, near Kells, Co. Meath, inDec, 1889, and one on the Shannon near Athlone inJan. 1893 (Zool, 1893, p. 106). A specimen of the Ferruginous Duck, known alsoas the White-eyed Pochard, sent from Yarmouth byDawson Turner, is figured in Sowerbys BritishMiscellany, 1806, tab. xxi. A hybrid between F. ferruginea and F. ferinaobtained on Rollesby Broad in Feb. 1845 (Zool.,1845, p. 1137), is figured in Messrs. Gurney andFishers account of Norfolk birds (Zool., 1846, p.1379), and others have been since recorded. Weight, 1 lb. 6 oz. SCAUP-DUCK. Fuligula marila (Linnseus). PL 29,figs. 3, 4. Length, 18 in.; bill, 1*75 in.; wing, 925in.; tarsus, 15 in. So named from its habit of frequenting thebeds of mussels, called scalp or scaup, on whichit feeds. A maritime species, seldom coming in-land except in very hard weather. As a wintervisitant it is not uncommon on the north-easterncoasts. The majority disappear in March, but itis believed that a few pairs remain to breed

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