BIRDS. PALMIPEDES. 55. Anas. 73 



i he young have the neck and breast fpottcd black and white, 



Female, reddish-brown barred with black : head and upper-part 

 of the neck with dusky longitudinal streaks: wings with 2 white 

 bands : belly deep brown with obfcure black marks : tail dusky. 



,'(38, A. spectabilis. Bill orange, with aflat compressed 

 gibbosity at the base, divided by a feathery ridge: 

 head pale ash-colour. 



King Duck. Arct. Zool. H. n. 481. F.dw. t. 154. 



Length nearly 2 feet, front pea-green, passing backwards each 

 side the neck, and including half the eye : chin, throat, and breast 

 dirty white, with a black mark diverging each side on the former : 

 back, bellv, and vent black : wings dusky with a white patch : quills 

 black, with ferruginous shafts, a white fpot on each side the outer- 

 ones : tail wedge-form, black : legs dusky. 



Female brown, the middle of each feather black. Young bird with- 

 out the protuberance on the bill. 



5269. A. nigra. Bill gibbous at the base, without the 

 nail at the end, black with a line of orange halfway 

 down the middle : body entirely black. 



Scoter, Walcot i. t. 59. Will. Angl. p. 336, /. 74. 



Length 22 inches : extent 34 : weight 2 pounds 9 ounces. 



Bill yellow in the middle : head and neck glossy^urplish-black : 

 tail wedge-form, of 16 pointed feathers : legs black. 



Female without the gibbosity on the bill, brown : chin and throat 

 greyish : belly varied with whitish. 



270. A.fusca, Bill gibbous at the base, yellow, black 

 at the sides, with a reddish nail : body blackish : un- 

 der the eyes a white mark : wings with a white band. 



Velvet Duck. Br. Zool. t. 96. Walcot t. 58. 



Length 20 inches : larger than the common drake. 



Bill broad : head black with a tinge of green : plumage inclining 

 to brown beneath : under the eyes a white patch passing backwards: 

 legs red. Female brown, without the protuberance on the bill. 



271. A. histrionica. Dusky-brown, varied with white and 

 blue : over the eyes a ferruginous stripe : ears and 

 line down the sides of the neck white : neck and 

 breast crossed with a white band, Female, grey 

 brown: ears white : primary quills blackish. 



Harlequin Duck. Sowerby Brit, miscel. i. p. 11. /. 6. 



Length 17 inches : extent 26 : weight near 19 ounces. 



Bill blackish, with a white patch from its bafe to the eyes r 

 crown black : neck black, with a white fpot above the white line : 

 breast bluish-grey, with a white collar fpottcd and bounded with 

 black, beneath a white band : sides dull rufous : wings with a blue 

 fpot bounded forwards by a tranfverfe white line : legs bluish-black. 



Female less, front and cheeks white ; breast and belly barred with 

 pale rnfous and whitish : quills and tail dusky, 



272. A. Boschas. Bill straight, yellowish-green : head 

 and neck glossy-green, with a white collar beneath ; 

 breast purplis,h-chesnut ; wing-spot purplue-bluc, 

 above which is a black and a white band: middle 

 tail-feathers, of the male, recurved. 



Wild Duck, Mallard Br, Zool, t, 97. Donov. 1. 124. Walcot t. 77, 

 Length 23 inches : extent 35 : weight 2 pounds and a half, 

 Neck with a white collar reaching more than half way round : 

 back brown : sides and fcapulars white, with undulate brown lines : 

 belly pale grey with brown undulate lines : 4 middle tail-feathers 

 glossy black, curved upward.*, the rest grey-brown edged with white, 

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