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tapering, containing eighteen narrow-pointed fea- 

 thers : the plumage of the breast and upper part of 

 the neck is of a remarkable kind, being dusky olive 

 at bottom, ending in hard bristly points of a silvery 

 grey, very much resembling the hair of some kinds 

 of seal-skins ; all these are thickly marked with trans- 

 verse curving lines of deep brown : belly and vent 

 silver grey, thickly crossed with dusky olive : under 

 tail-coverts white : legs and feet ash-coloured. 



PIED DUCK. 



(Rhynchaspis Labradora.) 



RH. dorso alls abdominequejiiscis, capite collo scapularibus remi- 



gibusque secundariis albis, torque Jasciaque pectoris nigris. 

 Shoveler with the back, wings, and abdomen brown ; the head, 



neck, scapulars, and secondary quills white ; a collar and band 



on the breast black. 

 Anas Labradora. Gmel. Syst. Xat. 1. 537. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 859. 

 Pied Duck. Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. 488. pi. in front. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 6. 497. Wils. Amer. Orn. viii. p. 91 . pi. Ixis./ 6. 



LENGTH nineteen inches : the base of the beak, 

 and round the nostrils, orange : the under mandible 

 dusky : the head and neck are reddish-white ; the 

 feathers of the crown rising in a narrow ridge, along 

 the top of which runs a narrow stripe of black to the 

 nape : round the middle of the neck a black collar, 



