gam drake

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• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
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gam [ref's for eider duck, mollissima. Under Eider or Cuthbert Duck, he gives various sources and page numbers. Here, there is no gam drake. Eidergans is too farfetched.] xerox from J. Widd. 35. molliffima. A roftro cylindrico, cera poftice pifida rugofa. Anas molliffima, LIN. SYFT. i. p. 198. 15. -Faun. Suec. N 117.-Gmel. Syft. i. p. 514.-Brun. N 57-66. - ID. Monogr. t. t. 2. - Muller; N116.-Borowfk. Nat. iii. p. 5. t. 32.-Klein. Av. p. 130. 10.- Muf. Carlf. fafc. i. t. 6. Anfer lanuginofus, Brif. vi. p. 294. 13. t. 29. 30.-Id. 8vo. ii. p. 440. Anas S. Cuberti, Raii Syn. p. 141. A. 3. F. -Will. p. 278. t. 77. F. Eidergans, Waullbaum Monogr. Lubec. 1778. Oie a duvet, Eider Buf. ix. p.103 t. 6.-PL. Enl. 209. M. 208. F. Great black and white Duck, Edw. t. 98. M. et F. Eider or Cuthbert Duck, Br. Zool. ii. N 27I.t.95.-Id. fol. 152.t. Q. -Arct. Zool. ii. N 480.-Tour in Scotl. (4to. ed.) 1769 t. p. 46. -Id. 8vo. t. p. 35.-Flor. Scot. i. N 209-Von Troil. Icel. p. 144-146.-Will (Angl.) p.362. t. 76.-Lath.Syn.vi. p. 460. 29.-Id. Sup. p.274 Habitat in feptentrionalibus Europe, Afiae, America, rarius in Anglia, Anfere minor.-22 pollices longa. Plumae molliffunae, praellantiffimae, preiofiffimae: roftrum et pedes nigri. Mas albus, fubtus pofticeque niger, capitis poftica parte juxra pileum virefcente. Femina grifea ferrugineo varia, alis fafciis 2 albis. Ovum fufco-virefeens nitens. W. J. KIRWIN FEB 16 1991 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used The quotation before J. Widd is typed, afterwards it is an attached photocopy.