This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...in a bleak and unsheltered situation, on an island in the sea, at some distance from the mainland. The materials of its composition are moss, flags, grass, small roots, and feathers, placed carelessly together, and intermixed with the down of the bird, added to, it appears, as incubation advances. The eggs are from six ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...in a bleak and unsheltered situation, on an island in the sea, at some distance from the mainland. The materials of its composition are moss, flags, grass, small roots, and feathers, placed carelessly together, and intermixed with the down of the bird, added to, it appears, as incubation advances. The eggs are from six to nine in number, and of a drab or brownish fawn-colour. As soon as the females begin to ii2 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER sit, the males quit them for the season. The species appears to be late in its nidification, scarcely beginning to build before the end of May, or the early part of June. The bird sits very close, and will almost allow herself to be trodden on before she will leave the nest. GOOSANDER GREEN-HEADED GOOSANDER--DUN DIVER. PLATE CC--FIGURE III. Mergus merganser, .... Linnaeus. Mergus castor, Macgillivray. THE Goosander breeds sparingly in the north of Scotland. It builds on small islands in fresh-water lochs in the neighbourhood of the sea, and near the water's edge. The nest, which is placed under the cover of bushes, in long grass, among stones, or in the hollow of the stump of a decayed tree, is large altogether, being raised to a height of seven or eight inches, on a mass of dead weeds, but the inner and more finished part is only about seven inches and a half across, and four in depth. It is composed of dry grass and small roots, rather neatly twined together, and lined with the down of the bird. It breeds, says Dresser, late in April or early in May, and makes its nest near water, either on the ground or in a hollow of a tree, frequently depositing its eggs in the nestboxes hung up by the peasants in the north of Scandinavia or Russia. The eggs, of a long oval shape, are from eight to twelve in number, or more, though rarely; ...
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