. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . as the birds rise or dive, by which means asportsman may reach the waters edge. They would thenon rising take flight, never attempting to escape by againdiving, as a grebe or diver would do. The adult male has the head and upper part of the neckrich glossy green, the feathers of a loose texture, andcapable of being much raised at will; the chin nearlyblack ; but a conspicuous mark is an oval spot behind thebase of the maxilla of pure white, which can be seen inflight even at a great distance. The lower parts of the neck, breas
. Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen) . as the birds rise or dive, by which means asportsman may reach the waters edge. They would thenon rising take flight, never attempting to escape by againdiving, as a grebe or diver would do. The adult male has the head and upper part of the neckrich glossy green, the feathers of a loose texture, andcapable of being much raised at will; the chin nearlyblack ; but a conspicuous mark is an oval spot behind thebase of the maxilla of pure white, which can be seen inflight even at a great distance. The lower parts of the neck, breast, belly, and vent arepure white, the long flank feathers having the outer partof their inner webs black ; the back and mantle part of thescapulars and long tertials black; the outer scapularswhite, having their exterior webs margined with black;the intermediate wing-covers and last secondaries purewhite ; the quills and tail blackish brown; legs and feetorange. In the female the head and neck are umber-brown, thebreast grey, and remaining under-parts pure The Common Shoveu,er 157 THE COMMON SHOVELLER(ANAS AYPEATA). THIS very beautiful and interesting duck is of con-siderable rarity in Britain, generally consideredas a winter visitant, but now known to breed inlimited numbers in the marshes of Norfolk. Nests havebeen discovered in the Firth of Forth, where at one timewas a good deal of marsh land, and many small reedypools of water. In its habits it is regarded as an inland bird, but attimes it is shot on the shores of some of our authority regards it as promiscuous in its feed-ing, and never procures its food by semi-immersion, nordoes it dive unless when hard pressed. In America it ismuch esteemed for the table, and the menu of the Dukeof Norfolk years ago at a special feast consisted, amongother fowl, of four seapeys and two shovellers. Bill black, the head and neck in some lights appearbrown, in others rich green, but anterior to the eyes, andon the
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