CHINA. 1751. y 



rs white below, with black fpots : the chin is 

 white : the head and all about the eyes is of a 

 whitifli grey : the quill and tail-feathers are 

 almoft the fame as in the male. The Chinefe 

 call this fort of ducks Hina-a. There is another 

 fort of ducks to be met with at Canton, which 

 is called Kong*ap 9 but this I have not feen. 



The bird which the Chinefe make ufe of for 

 fifhing is reprefented in feveral voyages, and 

 is here called Lou-foo a ; but no author hae 

 given a full defcription of it : I offered a rea- 

 fonable reward to any one who would procure 

 me fuch a bird for a mort time ; but in vain, 

 though this way of fifhing is faid to be ufed 

 in Macao. According to the reprefentations 

 of this bird in the books of travellers, it mud 

 be very like the Man of Vuir (Pelccanus aqui* 

 lus). They defcribe the filhery to be perform- 

 ed in the following manner ; the fifherman 

 fallens an iron ring about the bird's neck, fo 

 that it may not fwallow any fifhes : on the ring 

 is a rope with which the bird is held : As foon 

 as a fifh is obferved about the boat, the fifher- 

 man toffes the bird into the water* who imme- 



• In the AmbafTade de la C. O. des Provinces nnies, 

 p. 172. t. 173. it is called Lcwva. 



D 2 diately 



