$$6 BXACK AND SCOTER DUCK. 



483. Black. £</■«;. 155. — P^ TVa/i/^lxii. 417.— Canard da Nord, ou le Marchand, P/. £«-/, 



i)!)^.— Latham, iii. 

 Anas Perfpicillata, Lin. Syft, 201. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



T>^ With a comprefled bill, rifing into a knob at the bafe, each 

 fide of which is marked with a patch of black j middle: 

 ■white; fides of a deep orange; the edges black; nail red : fore 

 part of the head white: crown and cheeks black: juft beneath the 

 hind part of the head, the neck is marked with a large white fpot : 

 reft of the plumage of a dull black : legs and toes bright red ; webs 

 black. Weight two pounds two ounces. Length twenty-one - 

 inches. Extent thirty-five. The Female is twenty inches long : 

 of a footy color : has no white on the hind part of the head'; but 

 the cheeks are marked with two dull white fpots, 

 Placb. Appears in Hudfon's Bay as foon as the rivers are free from ice. 



Breed along the Ihores : make their nefts with grafs, and line them 

 , with feathers. Lay from four to fix white eggs : hatch in the end 

 of July. Feed on grafs. Extends to Nem Tork, and even to South 

 Carolina *. 



484. Scoter. Br. Zool. ii. N" 273.— Anas Nigra, i'a«». Sutc. N° no.'— Latham, iii. 



La Macreufe, PI, Enl. 278. — Lev. Mus. 



ir^. With a bill black; of a rich yellow in the middle.; on the 

 bafe a green knob, divided longways with a. furrow; no nail : 

 whole plumage black : head and neck glofled with purple : tail 

 cuneiform : legs black. Weight two pounds two ounces. Length 

 twenty-two inches. Extent thirty-four. 

 Place. Sent to Mrs. Blackburn, from New Tork. Abounds on the great 



lakes and rivers of the north and eaft of Sihiria, and on the fhores j 

 but'is lefs frequent in i?«^tf. Inhabits, Swedemndi Norway -^ . Lives 

 much at fea. Is of a very fifhy tafte. 



* Cate/by, App. f Lanv/on, IJI. 



