. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 162 ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. Table of dhnensiotis. [Taken from the fresh specimens.] Olor colttmbianns. "1^ oopq <u. Total length Tip of tail beyond closed wings Length of bill along gape Length from tip to the front of the nostrils. Length to the fore border of the eye Breadth of bill at the middle of the nostrils. Length of toes with claws: Outer toe Middle too Inner toe Hind toe Length of tarsus > Length of wing Length of longest tail-feathers Stretch of wings .â The weight of the Bering Island specimen was 12^ pounds. It w
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 162 ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. Table of dhnensiotis. [Taken from the fresh specimens.] Olor colttmbianns. "1^ oopq <u. Total length Tip of tail beyond closed wings Length of bill along gape Length from tip to the front of the nostrils. Length to the fore border of the eye Breadth of bill at the middle of the nostrils. Length of toes with claws: Outer toe Middle too Inner toe Hind toe Length of tarsus > Length of wing Length of longest tail-feathers Stretch of wings .â The weight of the Bering Island specimen was 12^ pounds. It was most likely an accidental straggler, as, in all probability, the other swans observed during the winter belonged to the species commou in the region, 0. cygnns. 63. Anas boschas Lin. 17b8.âAva8 boschas LiN., Syst. 10 ed., I, p. 127.âPall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 225 (1826).âMiDDEXD , Sibir. Eeiso, 11, 2 (p. 229) (1853).âKittl., Deiikw.,II, (lJ-5&).â, Reis. Amiirl. I, p. 472 (1860).âSwiNH., Ibis, 1861, p. 344.âW., ibid., 1862, p. 254. â/rf., ibid., 1.^77, p. 146.â7rf., P. Z. S., 1863, p. 324.âirf., ibid., 1871, p. 417.âBlakist., Ibis, 1KS2, p. 332.âM, Clirysautb., 1883, p. 27. âRadpe, Ri-is. Siid. Ost-Sibir. II, (p. 363) (1863.)âDybow. & Parvex, J. f. Oin., 1868, p. 338.âDall & Banxist., Tr. Chicag. Acad., I, 1869. p. 29().âPnzEW., Putcseb. (n. 197) (1870).âDall. Avif. Aleut. Isl. Uual. eastw., p. 5 (1873).âTaczan., J. f. Oru. 1873, p. 109.â Id., ibid., 1874, p. 336.â/rf., Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir., p. 69 (1877).âM., BulL Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 45.âId., ibid., 1883, p. 343.âBlakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 213.â/W., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. 183.âlid., ibid., X. 1882, p. 96.âSeeb., Ibis, 1879, p. 22.âHartlaub, J. f. Orn., 1883, â Nelson, Cruise Corwiu, ]>. 95 (1883).âTurner, Auk, , p. 158. The Wild Duck is known by the natives as ^^ISelesenn,''^ being very numerous on Bering
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