A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles (1862) (14563712120)

Identifier: historyofbirdsof04bree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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a richer brown, theouter web having a bluish tinge, and marked withbluish white near the ends of the outer webs of thefirst six, contrasting with the dark brown tips of thefeathers; secondaries unicolorous clay brown. Throatand cheeks finely-marbled light brown and white; chestand crop, flanks, and under tail coverts barred trans-versely with brown upon a ground which is lighterthan the dirty white of the abdomen; tail above lightbrown, tipped with white, below dirty white. Beakblack brown, the nail darker glossy, and much bentdownwards, so as to produce a kind of hook; feet andlegs black brown; iris brown. The female is, according to Temminck, like the male.Its plumage generally brighter; the stria; and brownbands paler, and the white of the abdomen purer. My figure is taken from a fine specimen sent me byMr. Tristram, which came from Alexandria. It has also been figured by Bonaparte, Faun. Ital.,fiiscic 46, fig. 1, (male,) and fig. 2, (young female;) andby Gould, B. of E., pi. 373.
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159 PALMIPEDES. Family ANATID^. fBonaparte.) Genus FuLiGULA. (Stephens.) Generic Characters.—Beak of a form and length very variable,more or less elevated at the base and depressed towards thepoint. Xostrils a short distance from the base. Legs morebehind the centre of gravity than in the genus Anas, andthe tarsi more compressed; toes long, the two outer ones beinglarger than the tarsus; hind toe with distinct dependingmembrane. Wings rather short; tail more or less stiff. Tracheadilated and ossified at its bifurcation. WHITE-HEADED DUCK. Fuligula mersa. Fuligula mersa, Degland; Ornith. Europ., 1849, Anas mersa, Pallas ; Voy., 1776, Schlegel. leucocephala, Scopoli, according to Gmelin. Syst., 1788. Latham. Temminck. Erismatura leucocephala, Bonapaete; 1838. Undina mersa, Keyseeling et Blasius; 1840. leucocephala, GoULD.Fuligule couronne. Canard couronne, or Canard Nymfhe, Of the Feench. Europdische Nymphenenle, Or the Geemans. Gohho ruffinosa, Savi. 160 WIIITE-IIEADED DUCK. Specific