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patch over each eye, the under side of the crest 

 is black ; the head, neck, breast, belly and vent are 

 white ; the wings are black and white ; the tail of 

 16 feathers ; the legs and feet bluish lead colour. 

 Labyrinth nearly like the other species. 



The covering of birds (Dr. Paley observes) cannot escape 

 the most vulgar observation. Its lightness, its smoothness, 

 its warmth; the disposition of the feathers all inclined back- 

 ward, the down about their stem, the overlapping of their 

 tips, their different configuration in different parts, not to 

 mention the variety of their colours, constitute a vestment 

 for the body, so beautiful, and so appropriate to the life 

 which the animal is to lead, as that, I think, we should 

 have had no conception of any thing equally perfect, if 

 we had never seen it, or can now imagine any thing more so. 

 Natural Theology. 



GENUS LVIIL 



ANAS. 

 Bill broad, depressed ; the end furnished with a 



The whole of this genus is furnished with a powerful 

 muscular stomach or gizzard. 



Birds are furnished, for the purpose of cleaning their 

 feathers, laying them straight, and in some measure ren- 

 dering them impervious to wet, with a gland near the 

 rump, which secretes an oily fluid, and which when wanted 

 the bird readily obtains by erecting the tail coverts, and 

 squeezing with its bill a nipple- like process ; this gland is 

 very conspicuous in the Anseres. 



