BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY; CONTAINING PORTRAITS OF ALL THE BRITISH BIRDS. VOL 2. |
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appears ash-coloured authors beak Bee-eater belly Bewick bill breast breed British brown Buffon Canada Goose Carrion Crow cinereous coast colour common Corvus crest Crow Cuckow decoy diving dusky edged eggs Egyptian Goose Eider Duck Europe eyes feathers feed feet female ferruginous fish flesh flocks fowl frequently Garganey Geese genus Gmelin Goosander Goose Greater Spotted Woodpecker green Green Woodpecker hatched head hole Hoopoe Hudson's Bay inches in length inhabitants insects Isles killed Lath Latham lays legs Merganser Mergus middle Mont Montagu moulting neck nest observed old birds pair Pennant Picus Pintail plate plumage PROVINCIAL Raven Red-breasted Red-breasted Merganser resemble Rooks says season seen sides singular sometimes specimen Spotted Woodpecker Swan tail taken Teal Temminck tongue trachea trees Tufted Duck twenty upper whole Wigeon Wild wings winter wood young males