The architecture of birds / [Anon].

  • James Rennie
Date:
[1831]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The architecture of birds / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > 72 THE ARCHITECTURE OF BIRDS. pounds. Its native country extends from about 45° north to the highest arctic latitudes hitherto explored, both in Europe and America, —the Farn Isles, off the coast of Northumberland, and the rocky islets beyond Portland, in the district of Maine, being the southern boundary of their breeding places; but they are only very plentiful in Behring’s Straits, Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, and other arctic regions. Selby, however, thinks that they might be greatly increased in the Farn Islands, by proper attention.* According to M. 'T. Brunnich, who wrote an ex- press treatise on the natural history of the eider-duck, their first object, after pairing, is to procure a suit- able place for their nest, preferring the shelter of a juniper bush where it can be had, and where there is no juniper, contenting thernselves with tufts of sea grass (frundo arenaria, Poa maritima, Elymus ~* Selby, Ulustr. of Brit. Ornith.
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