. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. ^"'â " â â » -v->' Â¥ B '.' .1 >' â ! 11 ;. AMERICAN EIDER. 1*1 ij !!â¢! COMMON EIDER. SEA DUCK. Thar. Hack, cheeks, and wing-coverts white; top of head, wings, tail, and lielly l)lacU ; patch ut sea-green on sides of neck; breast rosy buff; bill of greenish color, and with long wedges of feathers extending from the forehead and checks towards the nost
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. ^"'â " â â » -v->' Â¥ B '.' .1 >' â ! 11 ;. AMERICAN EIDER. 1*1 ij !!â¢! COMMON EIDER. SEA DUCK. Thar. Hack, cheeks, and wing-coverts white; top of head, wings, tail, and lielly l)lacU ; patch ut sea-green on sides of neck; breast rosy buff; bill of greenish color, and with long wedges of feathers extending from the forehead and checks towards the nostrils; legs dull green. The female is nearly uniform dull brown, mottled with paler on the breast; belly dull white. Length about 25 inches. A^cst. Generally on a flat and grassy ocean island, often on a bluff on the coast, â sometimes on a heath-covered moorland; a substantial structure of coarse marine herbage thickly lined with down. Av.^r 4-10 ; color varies from creamy gray to grayish green ; X The Eider Duck, remarkable for the softness of its valuable down, seems thus purposely provided by Nature with a clothing suited to the inclement regions in which it genera'iy dwells. Living mostly out at sea, it is thus enabled to endure the sever-. 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 Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924; Nuttall, Thomas. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Boston : Little, Brown
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