Identifier: colouredillustra61849meye (find matches)
Title: Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Meyer, H. L. (Henry Leonard), d. 1864 Meyer, H. L. (Henry Leonard), d. 1864. Illustrations of British birds Rutter, Daniel, former owner. DSI Rolle, Mark, former owner. DSI S. & J. Bentley, Wilson & Fley, printer S. & J. Bentley and Henry Fley, printer
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds Taxidermists Birds
Publisher: London : G.W. Nickisson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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re white: the tertials are long, pointed, andcurved downwards; the four upper ones have the inner webswhite; the outer, black, with blue reflections, and a whiteshaft streak; the speculum is blue, bordered with black andwhite ; the entire breast and belly are brownish-yellow ; the 162 ANATID.E. eyes brown; the beak, legs, and feet are olive-green ; tipof the beak yellow, webs black. On the side of the breast,just above the carpal joint of the wing, is a black spot withgreen reflections. The female has the entire plumage chestnut-brown, spottedall over with dusky ; the quills, tail-feathers, and three longesttertials, are dusky ; the wing-coverts dusky olive-brown, withthe tips of the feathers very pale brown ; the greater wing-coverts are tipped with white ; the speculum deep chestnut;below which, the white tips of these feathers form a narrowwhite bar. The beak is olive-black; its nail yellow-horncolour; legs and feet pale blue; claws, joints, and websblack ; the eyes brown. 3< P-
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LONG-TAILED DUCK. 1 6*3 tiA TA TORES. A NA 71DAI. PLATE CCLXV. LONG-TAILED DUCK. ANAS GLACIALIS. The Long-tailed Duck is a winter visitant in the northernparts of Great Britain, but very rarely met with south of thecoast of Northumberland. The native region of this speciesis as far north as travellers have ever yet penetrated, and con-sequently as far as where any part of the ocean remainsunfrozen, and capable of furnishing it with food. Itsnumbers are very great, as well on the American coast,from Greenland southward, as on the entire northern coastof Asia arid Europe. The locality frequented is invariably the sea-coast, par-ticularly bogs, inlets, and mouths of rivers. The present species being only dislodged by the severestfrost from its northern summer habitation, it is naturallyhardly ever seen to arrive in the autumn before the end ofOctober, or beginning of November, and remains with usuntil the beginning of April. In the month of Decembermany flocks, each consisting of from th

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