5 S6 SCAUP DUCK. Class If. 



low : but it preferves the other marks of the old 

 duck. In this date it has be<in defcribed in the 

 Ornith. boreal 91, under the title of anas latirofira. 



•i"" * Scaup. Bollenten. Gefner a<v. 120. Jin av. VI. 416. 



Scaup Duck. Wil. cm. 365. Danisl'olfk Edelmand, Brun- 



Raiifyn av. 1 42. nich, 50, 51. 



Anas marila. Lin. Jyft. 196. Schwartze v/ildc Entc. Trifch, 



Faun. Suec. fp. ill. II. 193. 



Le petit Morillon raye. Brif- Br, Z00L 153. add. plates. 



Dsscrif. rr^HIS we defcribed from fome ftuft fkins very 

 ■*■ well preferved *. It feemed lefs than the com- 

 mon duck. The bill was broad, flat, and of a 

 greyifh blue color : the head and neck black glof- 

 fed with green : the bread black : the back, the 

 coverts of the wings, and the fcapulars finely mark- 

 ed with numerous narrow tranfverfe bars of black 

 and grey : the greater quil feathers are dufky : 

 the lefTer white, tipt with black: the belly is white: 

 the tail and feathers, both above and below, are 

 black ; the thighs barred with dufky and white 

 ftrokes : the legs dufky. 



Mr. Willughby acquaints us, that thefe birds 

 take their name from feeding on fcaup, or bro- 

 ken fhell fifh : they differ infinitely in colors ; fo 



* When this happens, we have recourfe to Mr. Willughby 

 for the weight and meafurements, whenever he hath noted 

 *hem. 



that 



