^SS^ , SPIRIT DUCK. 



Place. Inhabits from iWw Tork to Greenland : in the laft is very rafej 



and arrives in the bay on the breaking up of the ice : difappears on 

 the return of froft. Frequents frefh-water lakes: makes a regular 

 neft of grafs, and feathers from its ov/n breaft. Lays from feven to 

 ten white eggs. Is expelled Sweden by' the froft, except a few which 

 haunt the unfrozen parts of rivers near the cataracts : there they live, 

 diving continually for fliells. Extends to Norway. 



487. Spirit. Little Black and White Duck, Edav. \oo, — P^, 7r«»/; Ixii. 416. 



Anas Albeola, Lin. Sjjl. 199. — Latham, iii. 

 Fem. Little Brown Duck, Caiefiy, i. 98. 

 Sarcelle de la Louiiiane, dite la Religieufe, PI. Enl. 948.— Lev. Mus. 



With a black bill : crown and fore part of the head of a glofly 

 biackj varying with green and purple : throat and upper pare 

 of the neck encircled with the fame: cheeks and hind part of tlie 

 head white : lower half of the neck, breaft, belly, and fcapulars, 

 v/hite : primaries, fecondaries, and tertials, dufky j upper ends of the 

 fecondaries white; coverts incumbent on them white; on the others 

 dufky : back and tail dufky : legs orange. In the Female the 

 head and upper part of the neck dufky : a large white oblong fpoE 

 marks the fides of the head, beginning behind each eye : back, tail, 

 primaries, and lefler coverts, duflcy : great coverts and fecondaries 

 white : breaft and belly dirty white : legs orange. Size of a 

 Wigeon. 

 -PifACE. Inhabits North America, from Hudjon's Bay to Carolina. Called 



fometimes .the Spirit, as is fuppofed, from its fuddenly appearing 

 again at a diftance, after diving. Vifits Severn river, in Hudjon's 

 Bay, in June:^ and makes its ncft in trees, among the woods near 

 frefh waters. 



D. With 



