The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 239
attached a light slender chain, whichallowed it more exercise than it could havehad in the common wire cage ; at the outeredge of the bottom-board was a ring, throughwhich ran the chain, to each end of whichwere fastened the little buckets that held thefood and water, which the bird drew up withits… … This is the largest species of merganser; | weight about four pounds; length two feet Q THE FIELD BOOK. [Goo four inches. The hill three inches long, nar-row, serrated, or toothed, <m the edges of hothmandibles; the tip of the upper hooked ; co-lour red : irides the same ; the head and upperpart…
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