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SPANISH DUCK. 



(Anas viduata.) 



h.y.J'usca, ca-pit is antico albo, postico nigro, pedibus camlets. 

 Brown Duck with the head white in front and black behind, the 



legs blue. 

 Anas viduata. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 205. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.536. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 858. 

 Canard a face blanche de Maragnon. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 



255. Buff'. PI. EnL 808. 

 Spanish Duck. Penn. Genera. Birds, 65. pi. 13. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 6. 525. Lath. Syn. Sup. 275. 



LENGTH about twenty inches : beak and irides 

 black : the forehead, cheeks, chin, and back part of 

 the head pure white : crown black : on the neck a 

 collar of the same : the wings pale brown, without 

 any speculum : the back and breast bright rust co- 

 lour, crossed with narrow dusky lines : the belly 

 whitish brown, spotted with black : the tail cuneiform j 

 black : the legs bluish. 



A beautiful species : it inhabits the lakes of Car- 

 thagena in South America : it has a whistling note. 



