230 AVES NATATORES. [CAIRINA. 



secondaries next the body with their outer webs rich orange-brown: 

 bill, and a fleshy protuberance on the forehead, blood-red : irides brown : 

 legs flesh-red, inclining to crimson. (Female.) Smaller ; no frontal pro- 

 tuberance, but a whitish spot instead : the colours in general not so 

 bright as in the male : the pectoral band, and abdominal list, narrower ; 

 the latter often interrupted by large white spots. (Young of the year.) 

 Forehead, cheeks, front of the neck, back, and all the under parts, white : 

 crown and back of the neck dusky brown, with whitish specks : the pec- 

 toral band faintly indicated by a very pale tinge of reddish on that part : 

 scapulars dusky gray, edged with pale ash : lesser wing-coverts white, 

 with dusky tips, having a mottled appearance: tail tipped with cine- 

 reous brown: bill reddish brown: legs livid gray. (Egg.) Smooth; 

 shining white : long. diam. two inches nine lines ; trans, diam. one inch 

 eleven lines. 



A common species on many parts of the British coast, where it resides 

 all the year. Prefers flat and sandy shores. Is rarely observed inland. 

 Breeds in rabbit-burrows, or in holes in sand-banks excavated for the 

 purpose. Eggs eight to ten in number. Food, sea-weed, marine insects, 

 and small bivalve mollusca. 



* GEN. 90. CAIRINA, Item. 



* 237. C. moschata, Flem. (Musk Duck.) Bill, legs, and naked skin 

 surrounding the eyes, red : plumage various. 



Anas mcschata, Linn. Syst. Nat. torn. i. p. 199. Muscovy Duck, Lath. Syn. 

 vol. in. p. 476. Musk Duck, Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 317. (Trachea,) 

 Linn. Trans, vol. xv. pi. 15. f. a. 



DIMENS. Entire length twenty-four inches six lines. 



DESCRIPT. Crown-feathers slightly elongated, forming a kind of tuft capable of 

 being erected : colours of the plumage extremely variable in the domesticated state ; 

 often wholly white, the tuft on the crown excepted, which is black ; or slate-gray, 

 with more or less white on the under parts : tail of twenty feathers ; the outer one 

 on each side always white : bill, a fleshy protuberance at its base, and a naked 

 papillose skin surrounding the eyes, red : legs short and thick ; red, or reddish 

 yellow. In the female, the naked papillose skin is of a paler hue, and does not 

 cover so large a part of the face: she is also smaller than the male. (Egg.) 

 Yellowish white: long. diam. two inches six lines; trans, diam. one incn nine 

 lines. 



Common in a domesticated state, throughout Europe, but not indigenous. 

 Native country said to be America, where they are still found wild. A prolific 

 species, laying often, and producing from eight to twelve in a brood. Nest occa- 

 sionally placed in the holes of trees. Has a musky smell arising from the gland on 

 the rump. 06s. The Anas bicolmr of Donovan* is a hybrid between this species and 

 the common Domestic Duck, which not unfrequently breed together. 



GEN. 91- ANAS, Linn. 



(1. ANAS, Swains.) 



238. A. clypeata, Linn. (Common Shoveller.) Head 

 and neck glossy green ; back brown ; belly and abdomen 

 brownish red ; lesser wing-coverts pale blue. 



A. clypeata, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 842. Shoveller, Mont, 

 Orn. Diet, fy Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 345. Common 

 Shoveller, Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 297. pi. 48*. (Trachea,) Linn 

 Trans, vol. iv. pi. 13. f. 4, & 5. 



* Bril. Bird*, vol. ix. pi. 212. 



