VELVET DUCK. 



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a great bed of white : legs dirty red. Size near double of the MaI- 

 Lard. The Female differs greatly in color, being moftly black 

 and brown : the belly dufliy : the plate on the bill ilightly eminent. 



This fpecies is found mHudfon's Bay, and, in winter, as low as Place. 



New York. Is as common in Greenland as the Eider. Yields al- 

 raoft as much down, and is as ufeful to the natives : has the fame 

 haunts, and is taken in the fame manner. Inhabits the coaft of 

 Norway^ and even has been killed in the Orknies. Is frequent on 

 the ArSfic fhores of Sibiria, and extends to Kamtfchatka. 



JBr, Zool. ii. N" 272.^-Ana3 Fufca, Swarta, Faun. Suec. N" 109. 4.82. VfiLVEt.- 



La grande Macreufe, PI. Etil. g^6. — LaihaH!, iii. — Lev.Mus. 



), With abroad billj elevated near the bafe ; black in the mid- 

 dle ; yellow on the fides 5 the nail red : behind each eye * is a 

 white fpot : a bar of the fame color croffes each wing : all the plu- 

 mage befides is of a rich velvet black : legs red. The Female is of 

 a deep brown ; but marked, like the male, with white. ' ' 



Frequents the feas about New Tork. Is very common in the great Plage. 



lakes and rivers of the north and eaft of SibU~ia, and on the fhores. 

 Extends to Kamt/chatka. Is lefs common in Rujfia. Lays from 

 tight to ten white eggs, Notwithftanding they are Ducks which 

 at all other times frequent the fea, yet, in the laying feafon, go 

 far inland, and make their nefts : as foon as that tafl-c is over, the 

 males fly-away; but as foon as the young can fly, they are rcjoihed 



by their mates ; followed by the brood f. > 



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• Read eye, in the Br. Zool. inftead oi ear, f StelUr, in Nov. Cont. Petrof. 



iv. ^n,-^Strm, p. 230. 



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