. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . ith broad wavesof black more or less distinct; the sides greyish brown, withedgings of dull white: these marks are considered by Audubonto be characteristic of the breeding plumage, and they areno doubt then in their greatest intensity. Back above, darkgreyish brown, with pale reddish brown edges to the feathers;below, dark brown. The wings have the second quill feather the longest; greaterand lesser wing coverts, grey, edged with rufous white orwhite; primaries, bluish black; secondaries, also bluish black;tertiaries, margined with du
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . ith broad wavesof black more or less distinct; the sides greyish brown, withedgings of dull white: these marks are considered by Audubonto be characteristic of the breeding plumage, and they areno doubt then in their greatest intensity. Back above, darkgreyish brown, with pale reddish brown edges to the feathers;below, dark brown. The wings have the second quill feather the longest; greaterand lesser wing coverts, grey, edged with rufous white orwhite; primaries, bluish black; secondaries, also bluish black;tertiaries, margined with dull white. The tail has the middlefeathers dark grey, tipped with white, the outer ones nearlyentirely white; upper and under tail coverts, white. Legsand toes, orange-colour; claws, very pale bluish grey; webs,pale reddish orange. The female has less white on the forehead. In the young of the first year, the feathers about the baseof the upper bill are dark brown; the bill pale brown at thetip. The breast is without the dark bars and patches on 131 BERNICLE GOOSE. CLAKIS. TREE GOOSE. COMMON BERNICLE GOOSE. Anser bernicla, Fleming. Selby. • leitcopsis, Jenyns. Gould. Anas leueopsis, Temminck. erylhropus, Pennant. Montagu. Anser—A Goose. Bernicla—The Barnacle. This species is abundant in Russia, Lapland, and on many of the shores of the Baltic, Sweden, Denmark,and Finland, Norway, Jutland, and Holstein; and occursbesides in the Faroe Islands and Iceland. It is also plentifulin Holland, and is met with in Germany and France. InAsia, it appears to belong to the northern districts, and toJapan, and in America has been found at Hudsons Bay, an:1in Canada, as also, though less numerously, in the United States. In Yorkshire, two were killed on Midgley Moor, September2nd., 1836. In hard weather specimens are frequently shotnear Doncaster, and some are taken occasionally in theneighbourhood of Huddersfield, on the Marsden, Slaithwaite,Melth
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