BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE MUSK DUCK. 



CAIRO, GUINEA, OR INDIAN DUCK. 



(Anns inoscliata, Linn. Le Canard Musette, Buff.; 



THIS species is much larger than the Common 

 Duck, measuring about two feet in length. The 

 irides are pale yellow ; the bill from the tip to 

 the protuberance on the brow, is more than two 

 inches long. Domestication, from time to time> 

 has made a great variation in the plumage of 

 these birds, but they are all alike in having a 

 fleshy knob on the base of the bill, and a naked, 

 red, warty, or carunculated skin extending from 

 that and the chin to above the eyes, and in hav- 

 ing the crown of the head rather tufted and black. 



