This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...SHELDRAKE, White sheldrake; with the head and neck black; the bill and legs red, IN. IN. Length 23 Tarsi.., 2 Bill 2 Middle toe 2 Head and upper part of the neck black, glossed with green; fore part of the wings, back, tail, abdomen, and tail coverts, white; tail feathers tipped with black; a line down the middle of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...SHELDRAKE, White sheldrake; with the head and neck black; the bill and legs red, IN. IN. Length 23 Tarsi.., 2 Bill 2 Middle toe 2 Head and upper part of the neck black, glossed with green; fore part of the wings, back, tail, abdomen, and tail coverts, white; tail feathers tipped with black; a line down the middle of the abdomen black; upper part of the back and band across the breast deep ferruginous; quills black; wing spot green; bill and legs reddish orange, the latter in some specimens inclining to flesh colour. Anas Tadorna Linn. Syst. Jv'at. 1. 195-4. Rail Syn. 140 A. 1. Tadorna vulpanser Flem. Brit. An. 1. 122. Le Tadorne Buff. Ois. 9. 205. Canard Tadorne Temm. Man. Tadorna vulpanser Selb. Illust. Brit. Orn. 11. 289. Gould, Birds of Europe. Tadorna Bellonii Steph. Sh, Zool. 12. 72. Trachea Linn. Trans, vol. iv. tab. 15, Jig. 9, 10. Found over nearly the whole of Europe and some parts of Asia and America; lays twelve eggs of a whitish colour, generally in rabbit holes; frequents the sea. Trachea of male slightly enlarged about an inch and half above the inferior larynx, and again contracted immediately above it, as among the Anserina. The inferior larynx is furnished with two large compressed bulbs, the one on the right side being nearly double the size of that on the left; but neither are of such strength as in those species of the last family which possess that adjunct. TADORNA RADJAH. Tad.--Capite, collo, ventre, ptilisque albis; collo inferiore lato castaneo cingulo ornato, sparso atro. RADJAH SHELDRAKE. Head, neck, belly, and anterior part of the wing white; the lower part of the neck surrounded by a band of deep castaneous irrorated with black. IN. IN. IN. Length 22 Bill If Tarsi 2 Head, neck, belly, and anterior part of the wing white; lower pa...
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