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Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches) Title: British birds Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925 Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co. Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: derable niunber ofpairs remain to breed in suitable localities throughout England, andmore numerously in Scotland and Ireland. The nest is placed onthe ground on the borders of a marsh or bog, and sometimes at adistance from water, among heather or herbage ; it is made of drygrass and leaves, and, later on, down from the bird is added. Theeggs are creamy-white or pale buff in colour, with a tinge of green,and eight or ten in number, sometimes as many as fifteen. Theteal feeds chiefly by night, on aquatic plants, insects, slugs, and smallcrustaceans. Its call-note is a short, sharp quack, and in the pairing-time the drake emits a low, jarring note. The drake does not moultso early as most ducks, and remains longer with the female durmgthe breeding season, leaving her only when the young are partlygrown. Two American species of teal—the blue-winged teal (Querque-dula discors) and the green-winged teal (Q. carolinensis)—havebeen obtained in Great Britain, one specimen of each. ^^^.^^ Text Appearing After Image: SHOVELEH 245 Shoveler. Spatula clypeata. Bill lead-colour, very broad at the tip; head and upper neckgreen; lower neck and scapulars white; middle of the back darkbrown; shoulders pale blue; greater wing-coverts white; second-aries dark brown with a green speculum ; primaries, rump, upperand imder tail-coverts, and tail-feathers, blac
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