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Edwards, George, 1694-1773. / Gleanings of natural history : exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, etc. most of which have not, till now, been either figured or described
Part II (1760)
Chap. LXX. Pla. 280. The long-tailed duck from Newfoundland; and the spur-winged plover; Le canard à longue queuë de Terre-Neuve. Et le pluvier à ailes éperonnées, pp. 146-149
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CHAP. P L A. 7e Long-tailed Duck from New- foundland; A N D 7l1e Spur-winged Plover. T HE Long-tailed Duck is about the bignefs of our Wigeon. The figure is reduced from its natural fize to bring it into the compafs of the plate. Its princi- pal meafures are as follows: from bill point to the corners of the mouth a little more than one inch and a half: the wing when clofed is eight inches long : the legs from the knees downwards are not quite an inch and half: the middle toe is a little above two inches : the middle fcathers of the tail are near eight inches long. The bill is black, except a red bar acrofs the upper mandible between the noifrils and the tip, deeply peafinated on its edges, and Ihaped as in moR other Ducks: the fore part and fides of the head, and the fides of the neck, are of a light brown, in- clining to flefh colour: the hind part of the head and neck, the throat, and begin- ning of the breaft, are white: it hath a large black fpot on each fide of the head or beginning of the neck: the back and covert-feathers of the wings are of a gloffy black: the greater quills, and the four longeff, or middle feathers of the tail, are black or dufiky : the inner quills that fall next the back are of a dark reddifli brown colour: the infides of the wings are wholly of a dufky brown colour: the breaft is of a dufky black, which colour joins itfelf in the upper part by a ring with the black on Le Canard 'a longue queue Terre-neuve. Le Pluvier 'a ailes 6peronnees. LE Canard a' longue queu.; eJI a peu pr ys de la grofeur de notre Vignon. La grandeur naturelle en a 6te'r&duite, pour l'ac- commoder au format de la planche. Voici les principales dimenjions fe/on le naturel: depuis la pointe du bec juziqu'aux angles de l'ouver- ture, azides dA'n police et deni: 'aile etant ftrme'e a huit pouces de long: les jambes de- puis le genou enbas n'ont pas tiout- \-fait un pouce et demi: l'orteil du milieu en a un peu plus de deux: les plumes du milieu de la queue ont plus de huit polices de longuecur. Le bec eji noir, excepte une barre rouge, qui en traverfi la mandibule fupe'rieure, en- tre les nafeaux et la pointe: les bords en fJnt dentele's profondement; quant au refle, ii e/l fait commne la plhfbart des autres Canards: le devant et les cotcis de la t0e, avec les c6te's du cou /ont d'un gris tirant fur le coulcur de chair: le derriere de la tttte et du cGU eft lanc, dezmelne que la gorge et le commencet nt de l'e/lomac : il a une grande tache noire ovale fur chaque co'te de la tdte, ou fur le' ccnmence- mient du cou: le n/ilieu du dos, et les plzin es qui couvrent les ailes, font d'ui noir lw/ri: les penn2es du itcuet tie laiie, et les quatrt grandes plurmes die nilieu de la qZieui, Joint noires, ou d'uin brun fort ovlIur: les pennes interieures, c'e/l-d-dire cell/s d'aupre's Fiut dos, f/0it d'unz bruw roug ea'tre Jnc: I'e ulelo lS des /iles ci tout dfun brun c/.!J L'7: i'i'fonwc. c/I d'zn noir terne, et cette cou/eur tournatnt cni ( I46 ) LXX. 2.80. de
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