. The aquatic birds of Great Britain and Ireland . assed through incaptivity. Top of head, dark brown; back and sides of headbehind the eye, lighter brown ; oval patch in front of eye,white, mottled with brown ; lower part of face, impurewhite, mottled with brown ; chin, mottled dark brown andwhite, brown predominating; middle line of throat, chieflywhite ; sides of throat, dappled with white and brown, likethe lower part of the face ; lower throat, breast, abdomen,and under tail-coverts, dirty white ; back of neck, mid-back,and lower back, brown, the last darker in shade, merginginto the blac
. The aquatic birds of Great Britain and Ireland . assed through incaptivity. Top of head, dark brown; back and sides of headbehind the eye, lighter brown ; oval patch in front of eye,white, mottled with brown ; lower part of face, impurewhite, mottled with brown ; chin, mottled dark brown andwhite, brown predominating; middle line of throat, chieflywhite ; sides of throat, dappled with white and brown, likethe lower part of the face ; lower throat, breast, abdomen,and under tail-coverts, dirty white ; back of neck, mid-back,and lower back, brown, the last darker in shade, merginginto the blackish-brown colour of the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers, brownish, frayed and broken, theirbasal three-fourths only being preserved ; thighs show somebrown feathers ; scapulars and inner secondaries, blackish,and only faintly glossed ; outer secondaries, brownish, edgedwith white, forming a wing-bar; primaries, light mouse-brown, many of them broken, and with frayed edges ; lesserwing-coverts, greyish-brown, edged with deeper brown ;.
Size: 1977px × 1264px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectwaterbi, bookyear1906
