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Image from page 312 of “The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America” (1855)
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Title: The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Lewis, Elisha J. (Elisha Jarrett), 1820-1877
Subjects: Shooting Game and game-birds — United States Firearms Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and co.
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art of the vent-feathersblack; sides of the same brownish-white, or pale-reddish cream;lesser wing-coverts brown ash; greater tipped with reddishcream; the first five secondaries deep velvety black, the nextfive resplendent green, forming the speculum or beauty-spot,which is bounded above by pale bufif, below by white, and oneach side by deep black; primaries ashy-brown; tail pointed,eighteen feathers, dark drab; legs and feet flesh-colored. Insome, a few circular touches of white appear on the breast nearthe shoulder of the wing. The windpipe has a small bonylabyrinth where it separates into the lungs; the intestinesmeasure three feet six inches, and are very small and tender. The female wants the chestnut-bay on the head, and theband of rich green through the eye, these parts being dusky-white, speckled with black; the breast is gray brown, thicklysprinkled with blackish, or dark brown; the back dark brown,waved with broad lines of brownish-white; wing nearly thesame as in the male.
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ANAS ALBEOLA. BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK, OR BUTTER-BALL. This little Duck is more commoul}- known as the Butter-Box, or Butter-Ball, from the circumstance of its fat, plumplittle bocl3^ It is one of the very first Ducks that x2ome fromthe North. Their flesh is rather fishy at times, but we haveshot them on the Chesapeake and Delaware of very good flavor.They breed in the North, fly with great velocity, and dive withconsiderable facility; and when on the wing, utter a quick gut-tural note—quack! quack! quack! DESCRIPTION. The Buffel-Headed Duck, or rather, as it has originallybeen, tlie Buffalo-Headed Duck, from the disproportionate sizeof its head, is fourteen inches long and twenty-three inches inextent; the bill is short, and of a light blue or leaden color;the plumage of the head and half of the neck is thick, long,and velvety, projecting greatly over the lower part of the neck;this plumage on the forehead and nape is rich glossy green,changing into a shining purple on the crown and sid
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