. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . n, more or less sprinkled withwhite, and crossed with narrow waved white lines : someof the primary quills towards the body, are white; thebases of the secondaries, of the same colour, form anoblique bar across the wings, which is stopped by a singleunder tertial feather, of plain brown, with green reflec-tions : the belly is white, and shaded oflf towards the ventwith the same kind of sprinkled and waved lines as thoseso predominant on a large portion of the plumage. Thelegs are short; toes long, and, as well as the outer or la-ter
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . n, more or less sprinkled withwhite, and crossed with narrow waved white lines : someof the primary quills towards the body, are white; thebases of the secondaries, of the same colour, form anoblique bar across the wings, which is stopped by a singleunder tertial feather, of plain brown, with green reflec-tions : the belly is white, and shaded oflf towards the ventwith the same kind of sprinkled and waved lines as thoseso predominant on a large portion of the plumage. Thelegs are short; toes long, and, as well as the outer or la-teral webs of the inner toes, are of a dirty pale blue co-lour ; all the joints and the rest of the webs are birds are said to vary greatly in their plumage, aswell as size, but those which have come under the au-thors observation were all nearly alike. The Scaup Duck, like others of the same genus, quitsthe rigours of the dreary north in the winter months,and in that season only is met with, in small numbers, onvarious parts of the British 306 BRITISH BIRDS.
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