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 485
point it outas a head to a tribe ; others, from similarityof shape, plumage, or habits, will fonn, by al-most imperceptible variations, the connectinglinks ; and those which may be said to com-pose the curvature of the bottom, by grada-tions equally minute, will rise to the last ringof the other… … v4 The scoter is less than the velvet duck,weighing generally about two pounds nineounces, and measuring twenty-two inches inlength, and thirty-four in breadth. In severe winter the scoters leave the nor-thern extremities of the world in immenseflocks, dispersing themselves southward alongthe…
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