. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. W I O E O K '45 ^t%y anrt dark feathers fucceed to thofe with v/iiich they were decorated j their voice dies away and is loft hke that of the females, and half the year all feem condemned to fibnce and infenfibility. It is in this difmal ftate that thefe birds com- mence, in the month of November, their dif- tant voyage, and many are caught in this firft pafTage. It is then fcarce poiTible to diftinguifh the old from the young, efpccially thofe of the pintails; the gr
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. W I O E O K '45 ^t%y anrt dark feathers fucceed to thofe with v/iiich they were decorated j their voice dies away and is loft hke that of the females, and half the year all feem condemned to fibnce and infenfibility. It is in this difmal ftate that thefe birds com- mence, in the month of November, their dif- tant voyage, and many are caught in this firft pafTage. It is then fcarce poiTible to diftinguifh the old from the young, efpccially thofe of the pintails; the gray garb being more complete in that fpecies than in others. When all thefe birds return into the north, about the end of February or the beginning of March, they are decorated with their fineft colours, and are incefTantly heard to whiftle or fcream^ The adults now pair, and none remain in our marfhes but a few fhovelers, which can be ob- ferved to lay and hatch. The Wigeons fly and fwim always in bodies *. Every winter a few companies pafs in moft of our provinces, even thofe the moft diftant from the fea, fuch as Lorraine-)' and Brie X ; but they * Schwenckfeld aild Itleln. f Obfervations of M. Lottingef. ' ^ } ** Though I never killed, nor even knew this fort of duck in t' Brie, I am aflured that it appears there at two paHagcs: havivg- '* feen it very near on the pool in the orangery of the Palais-Ruyal ** at Paris, I recollected to have feen on our lakes, though at a dif* *' tance, ducks with red heads and white faces, «4iich were un *< dottbtedly the ; Oi^nfatien tf M, HtharL VOL, IX, pafs â n â A \ it- :.!â¢â. 4 â â ;: ti' i iu'- \ m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadel
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