. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ANATINJ: - THE DUCKS - IIISTRTONICUS. 00 said to bo 1 extreme .thaab, (ni I resident Captiiiii id at Yau- inter, Ijut Ay, in tlic L'alitit's ill listurbfil; at Kadiak ho Yukon lonv or in le YukiMi; nd oil till' it at I'liii- niiijj till re d to reside inner. r Mr. K(Mi- near Fort Clarke; ;it phofE. was found ining near "uy lecies was ent eating, e a native he Harlior nd, makes far as Ins icn-e it was t in great most rapid According to Yarrell, it is a rare and occasional visitor to the British
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ANATINJ: - THE DUCKS - IIISTRTONICUS. 00 said to bo 1 extreme .thaab, (ni I resident Captiiiii id at Yau- inter, Ijut Ay, in tlic L'alitit's ill listurbfil; at Kadiak ho Yukon lonv or in le YukiMi; nd oil till' it at I'liii- niiijj till re d to reside inner. r Mr. K(Mi- near Fort Clarke; ;it phofE. was found ining near "uy lecies was ent eating, e a native he Harlior nd, makes far as Ins icn-e it was t in great most rapid According to Yarrell, it is a rare and occasional visitor to the British coast. Two sppciniens were shot, in 1802, on the coast of Scotland; another was afterward taken . on the Orkneysâwhere, however, it is very rare. According to Vieillot, it has been taken on the coasts of France and Germany; Nilsson says it visits Sweden. Mr. Hewitson iigures an egg of this species brought from Iceland by Mr. G. C. Atkinson, of Newcastle, who is said to have found a nest containing seven or eight eggs, deposited in a bed of the bird's down, upon the grass bordering the margin of a Bhallow lake âa position (piite different from that of the nests seen by Mr. Shepard. The egg is described as being of a pale buff tinged with green, and inches long, by l.().'> in breadth. In tlu? "Zoologist" for 1850 Mr. J, J. Briggs publishes an interesting account of the breeding of a pair of this species in confinement in the Melbourne Gardens in Derbyshire. Although they had been kept there for several years, they did not breed until 184!). In these grounds, at a considerable distance from the pool, where the binls had usually lived, and in a retired part, was an ice-house, against which some ⢠thatch-sheaves had been placed. Upon these, sheltered from wet and sun, at a height ^f three feet, the pair formed a nest. This was simply a depression in the thatch, Jnade very soft and warm by being lined with down plucked from the parent bird. 'Ithe nest containe
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