. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . he patch on the forehead small, and partially coveredwith feathers; the head on the sides is a mixture of blackishbrown and white; the neck on the sides yellowish brown; thethroat brownish white; the breast ash grey, tinged with yel-lowish brown, paler below, and almost without the longitudinalwhite streaks; under tail coverts, yellowish; legs and toes,dull green. One was killed at Branford, near Ipswich, Suffolk, the December; 1847, which had the bill greenish yellow at thetip, and red at the base; the iris red; the head greyi
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . he patch on the forehead small, and partially coveredwith feathers; the head on the sides is a mixture of blackishbrown and white; the neck on the sides yellowish brown; thethroat brownish white; the breast ash grey, tinged with yel-lowish brown, paler below, and almost without the longitudinalwhite streaks; under tail coverts, yellowish; legs and toes,dull green. One was killed at Branford, near Ipswich, Suffolk, the December; 1847, which had the bill greenish yellow at thetip, and red at the base; the iris red; the head greyish black;breast, greyish white, inclining to chesnut on the sides, belowblack: the back light chesnut; the wing coverts, primaries,and tertiaries, black, edged with chesnut; the tail also black,edged with chesnut; upper tail coverts, light chesnut; undertail coverts, white. Legs and toes, green; all the plumageof the body with the webs disunited, having the appearanceof hair. The Rev. R. P. Alington has furnished the drawing fromwhich the plate is COOT. COMMON COOT. BALD COOT. Fulica atra, Pennant. Montagu. aterrt^na, LlNK^EDS. Fulica— ? Atra—The feminine of ater—Black. The Coot is widely distributed throughout the continentsof Europe, Asia, and Africa; occurring in Sweden, Norway,Denmark, Iceland, the Ferroe Islands, Eussia, Spain, Italy,France, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Siberia, Asia Minor,China, India, and the Islands of Japan and Sunda. In Yorkshire the species is common in some parts and notso in others. It is nearly extinct about Huddersfield, ratherrare near Sheffield, and occasionally seen near Leeds—atKillingbeck and Walton; but that this should be the casewith the present, or any other bird in the manufacturingdistricts, is anything but to be wondered at. About Barnsley,Doncaster, and York, it is somewhat more plentiful; I haveseen it on the Driffield stream. In Cambridgeshire they usedto be plentiful in the fens between Ely and Littleport, andso
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