Class II. 



MALLARD. 



59 * 



Les Canards et les Canes. 



Be/on av. \6o. 

 Anas fera torquata minor. 

 Anas domeltica. Gcfncr av. 



113, 96. 

 ^/•. «*>. III. S 3? 85. 

 Common wild Duck and 



Mallard. Common tame 



Duck. Wil. cm. 371, 380. 

 Raii jyn. a<v. 145, 150. 

 Le Canard domeftique, le 



Canard fauvage. Briffon 



a<v. VI 308, 318. 

 Einheimifche ent. Stock ent. 



Kram, 341. 



Anitra, Anitra falvatica, Ci- 



fone. Zinan. 105, 106. 

 Anas boichas. Anas domef- 



tica. Lin. fyft. 205. 

 Gras-and , Blanacke. Faun. 



Succ. fp. 131. 

 Fera, Nor<vegis Blaaehals v. 



Grres-And, aliis Stok-And. 



Dam's Vild-And. Brun- 



7iicb, 8j. 

 DomeiUca, Dams Tam-And. 



ibid. 88. 

 Wilde Ente. Frifch, II. 158. 



fcemina. 159. 

 Br. Zool. 155. 

 Ratza. ScopcUy No. yj. , 



279. Mal- 

 lard. 



THE mallard ufually weighs two pounds and 

 an half: the length is twenty-three inches; 

 the breadth thirty-five : the bill is of a yellowifh 

 green : the head and neck are of a deep and fhining 

 green : more than half round the lower part of the 

 neck is an incomplete circle of white : the upper 

 part of the bread is of a purplifh red ; and the be- 

 ginning of the back of the fame color : the breaft 

 and belly of a pale grey, marked with tranfverfe 

 fpeckled lines of a dufky hue. 



The fcapulars white, elegantly barred with 

 brown: the fpot on the wing is of a rich purple: 

 the tail confifts of twenty-four feathers. What dif- 

 tinguifhes the male of this fpecies from all others 

 are the four middle feathers, which are black and 



ftrongly 



Descrxp. 



