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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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dressing them with theirfatty oil. They are then ready for the first north ornorth-west wind that blows; and in twenty-four hoursthe coast that had been resonant with their petulantand incessant cries, and covered patch-like by theirwhitened squadrons, is silent and deserted—a barrenand frozen shore. The general plumage of the Snow Goose is white;forehead yellowish; primaries white at their base, andblack on their distal half. Iris, hair brown; beak, feet,and orbits red, the inferior mandible lighter, and thenails of both blue. According to all modern authors, the young isdescribed as the species the diagnosis of which willfollow this. According, however, to Mr. Barnston, asabove quoted, the young are white, with their headsstained with ferruginous. My figure of this bird is taken by kind permissionfrom the beautiful plate of Mr. Gould, in his Birds ofEurope. Figures will also be found by Wilson, AmericanOrnithology, vol. viii, pi. 68, fig. 5; Naumann, VogelNacht., pi. 23, fig. 46.
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133 PALMIPEDES. Family ANATIDJE. f Bonaparte.J Genus Anser. fBrisson.J BLUE-WINGED GOOSE. Anser ccerulescens. Anxer ccBrulescens, LiNN^US. sylvestris freti Jiudsoras, Bkisson. hyperhoreiis, jun., AucTOE. X oie des JEsquimaux, BuFFON. JBlue-wivged Goose, Edwards. Blue Wavy, Of the Ameeicans. Specific Characters.—General colour grey, wliite below; wingprimaries and lower part of back clear asby blue.—Linnjeus. Length thirty-one inches; beak two inches; tail five inches anda half; bare part of thigh seren lines; tarsus three inches;middle toe three inches; external toe two inches ten lines; internaltoe two inches nine lines; hinder toe nine lines. The wings,when closed, extend to three fourths of the length of the tail.—Brisson. Hitherto confounded with the young of the SnowGoose, I have much pleasure in restoring this bird tothe place which was assigned to it by Linnaeus andthat equally accurate observer Brisson. In the noticeof the last bird, the Snow Goose, I have given theautho

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