. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . outside feathers,xvhich are black on their exterior webs j but in flying, z 2 1S2 BRITISH BIRDS. these forks are frequently closed so as to look like a singlefeather. The upper part of the plumage is of a fine palelead colour : the quills are of a deeper cast, the outsideones the darkest: the legs and feet red. The female, it is said, forms her nest in the moss orlong coarse grass, near the lake, and lays three or foureggs of a dull olive colour, marked with different sizedblack spots at the thicker end : it is added, that shecovers
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . outside feathers,xvhich are black on their exterior webs j but in flying, z 2 1S2 BRITISH BIRDS. these forks are frequently closed so as to look like a singlefeather. The upper part of the plumage is of a fine palelead colour : the quills are of a deeper cast, the outsideones the darkest: the legs and feet red. The female, it is said, forms her nest in the moss orlong coarse grass, near the lake, and lays three or foureggs of a dull olive colour, marked with different sizedblack spots at the thicker end : it is added, that shecovers them only during the night, or in the day whenit rains •, at all other times she leaves the hatching of themto the heat of the sun. This clean-looking bird is pretty common in the sum-mer months on the sea-coasts, rivers and lakes of theBritish Isles, and is also met with in various parts of Eu-rope, Asia, and America. It migrates southward to theMediterranean, and to the Madeira and Canary Isles, andnorthward as far as Spitzbergen and Greenland. ^^WV^v. BRITISH BIRDS. 183
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