Class II. G A D W A L L. 



and behind each ear, a ferruginous fpot. The 

 firft round : the lift oblong and large. Throat of 

 a fine deep purple. The reft of the head of a 

 bright green, continued in ftreaks down the neck. 

 Bread a light ferruginous brown, fpotted with 

 black: hind part of the neck, and back, dark brown 

 waved with black. 



Coverts of the wings afti colored : lower coverts 

 ftreaked with ruft color: fcapulars cinereous : quil 

 feathers brownifti cinereous. Secondaries of a fine 

 green, ending in a (hade of black, and edged with 

 white. 



Coverts of the tail a deep changeable green. 

 Twelve feathers in the tail: two middlemoft black; 

 the others brown edged with white. Belly dufky, 

 finely granulated. Legs final, and yellow. Webs 

 dufky. 



Taken in a decoy near in 177 1. 



Communicated to me by Poore> Efq. 



603 



Anas ftrepera (ein Leiner). 



Gefner a-v. 121. 

 Aldr. a<v. III. 97. 

 Gadwall, or Gray. WiL cm. 



374- 

 Raii fyn. a<v. 145. 

 Le Chipeau. Briffbn mi, VI. 



339; tab. 33. fig. 1. 



Anas ftrepera. Lin. Jyfi. 200# 

 Faun. Suec. fp. 12 1. 

 Cimbris Knarre-Gaas. Brun- 



nicb y 9 1 . 

 Br. Zool. 157. 

 Grave mittel-ente . Frifcb, 



II. 168. 



288. Gad 



WALL. 



npHIS fpecies is rather inferior in fize to the Descri 





wigeon, 



The bill is two inches long, black, 



and 



