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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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reen-black head and neck, which is chiefly found in salt water; the Red-headed Pochard (^./eWwrt, Lin.), ash-coloured, with rufous head and neck, and black breast, nearly allied to which, but larger, is the celebrated Ame-rican Canvass-back {A. valisneria, Wilson); an J the Tufted Pochard {A. fuligula, Lin.; F, cristata, Auct.),purple-black, with pendent occipital crest, and white flanks and belly. A fourth, the White-eyed Pochard{A. nyroca, Gm.), is not common, and is distinguished by its maronne head and neck, the latter encircled with ablack collar, and a white spot on the chin. A fifth, the Red-crested Pochard {A. ritfina, Lin.), is larger than anyof the foregoing (except the American), with elongated, bright ferrugineous, coronal feathers, and the rest mostlydark: this bird belongs properly to Asia, and is only known as a straggler so far west. Lastly, the Pied Pochard(An, Stelleri and dispar)^ with plumage not unlike that of an Eider, another native of eastern Asia, has likewise
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PALMIPEDES. 2G5 been killed here. Most of these birds are very tine eating, the Scaup least so, and feed (excepting that e; ecies)principally on vejietable diet. Tlieir caci are larjjer than in nearly all of the foregoing.] The Ducks of our second division, wherein the Ijack toe is not bordered by a membrane, have amore slender head, tlie feet less broad, the neck not so long, the bill more even, the body not so thick:they walk better, and feed on aquatic plants and seeds, as well ason animal diet, [as indeed do also the preceding, though generallyto a less e.vtent]. It appears that their tracheal labyrinths con-sist of a homogeneous bony and cartilaginous substance, [whichforms a simple vesicle. They all moult twice in the year, themales attaining, by actual change of feather about midsummer, agarb more or less similar to that of the females. They have a con-siderable dilatation of the (esophagus, and large coeca]. These likewise admit of some subdivisions, [though considerablyless s
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