TAB. LXII. 



ANAS fraenata. 

 IVliite-faced Duck. 



Class 1. Aves. Order 



Spec. Char. Fusco-ferruginous. A spot on the 

 wings, abdomen, and a ring round the head at 

 the base of the bill, white. 



Syn. Anas frasnata. Sp arm. Mils, Carls, v. 2, pi. SS. 



1 HE White-faced, or Laughing Goose, {Anas Barnacla,) 

 as it is often called, is well known; but we have not seen 

 the White-faced Duck mentioned any where as British. 

 My good friend the Rev. James Dalton, F. L. S., has 

 sent me a young and an old one. As this gentleman does 

 not consider them rare in Yorkshire, it is rather to be 

 wondered at that there is no account of them except in 

 Sparrman's Musaeura Carlsonianum, from specimens shot 

 in Aland, in Norway. 



We cannot agree with the idea that it is the female of 

 Anas Marila, as upon comparing the essential parts, par- 

 ticularly the beak, they do not warrant that idea. Sparr- 

 man's description being a good one, we cannot do better 

 than merely to make a translation of it. 



Beak black, rather broad. Head brown, with a white 

 ring round the base of the beak. Neck ferruginous. The 



