HAWKSBURY BEUNICLE. l)'i 



the middle : the point as well as the under mandible 

 pale : the head, neck, beginning of the neck, greater 

 j>art of the wings and quills, tail and thighs, are 

 black ; the rest of the plumage white : the legs are 

 long and yellow, and the webs of the toes do not 

 above half their length. 



HAWKSnUIlY BERXICLE. 



(Bernicla jubata.) 



I.K. subcristata grisea, capite cclloque ferrugineis, pcclore 



/at-) abdomine crisaoque nigns. 

 Sul>crested Grey Bernicle with the head and neck rust-colour, 



the breast undulated, and the abdomen and rump black. 

 Anas jubata. Lath. Ind. Orn. App. Ixix. J'ieil. '2 Edit, flu 



Nour. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. t. 5. p. 1 10. 

 Hawksbury Duck. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 358- pi. in front. 



DESCRIBED and figured by Latham in his second 

 Supplement to his Synopsis. " Length twenty-two 

 inches : beak rather shorter than that of the Wigeon : 

 colour black : head and neck chocolate-brown ; at 

 the back part of the nape the feathers are much 

 lengthened, somewhat paler, and black at the ends : 

 the upper part of the back and wing-coverts brownish 

 ash-colour, the last palest : the lower part of the back, 

 rump, tail, and middle of the belly, vent, under tail- 

 coverts, and quills are black ; but the sides of the 

 breast and belly under the wings are grey, crossed 

 with minute undulated lines : speculum of the wing 



