Identifier: britishzoology02penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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l. 156.Raii fyn. a<v. 143. Descrip. TTS weight is about one pound twelve ounces:A its length nineteen inches; its breadth two feetand a half. The bill is of a deep lead color: thehead and neck are of a bright bay color: the breadand part of the back where it joins the neck, areblack : the coverts of the wings, the fcapulars, backand fides under the wings are of a pale grey,elegantly marked with narrow lines of black : thequil feathers duiky : the belly afh colored andbrown : the tail confifts of twelve fhort feathers, ofa deep grey color: the legs lead colored: theirides of a bright yellow, tinged with red. Female. The head of the female is of a pale reddifh brown : the bread is rather of a deeper color:the coverts of the wings a plain afh color : theback marked like that of the male : the belly afhcolored. Thele birds frequent frefh water as well asthe iea-, and being very delicate eating, are muchfought for in the. London markets, where they areknown by the name of Dm birds. Anas
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Class II. W I G E O N. 601 Anas rufa roftro pedibufque cinereis. Faun, Suec, fp. 47. 285. Ferru- C1NOUS. npHE defcription of this fpecies was fent to us Descrip,-*- by Mr. Bolton. The weight was twenty oun-ces : the bill is long and flatted, rounded a littleat the bafe, ferrated along the edges of each man-dible, and furnifhed with a nail at the end of theupper. The color a pale blue. The head, neck,and whole upper part of the bird is of an agreea-ble reddifh brown: the throat, bread and belly ofthe fame color, but paler : the legs of a pale blue;but the webs of the feet black. This fpecies, he informed us, was killed in Lin-colnjhire. We do not find it mentioned by any wri-ter, except Linnaeus, who toke his defcription fromRudbecks paintings \ and adds, that it is found,though rarely, in the Swedijh rivers, Anas fiftularis (ein Pfeifente) Anas fiftularis, le Canard fif- 286. Wig eon Gefner a<v 121. fleur. Briffon a<v. VI. 391. Penelope. Aldr. av. III. 92. tab. 35. fig. 2. Wigeo

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