PIED AND BUFFEL DUCK. 



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T\^ With the lower part of the bill black, the upper yellow : on 4^8. Pieb. 



- the fummit of the head is an oblong black fpot : forehead^ 

 cheeks, reft of the head, and neck, white ; the lower part encircled 

 with black : fcapulars and coverts of wings white : back, breaft, 

 belly, and primaries, black : tail cuneiform, and dufky : legs black. 

 The bill of the fuppofed Female ? refembles that of the male : head 

 and neck mottled with cinereous brown and dirty white : primaries 

 dufky : fpeculum white : back, breaft, and belly, clouded with diffe- 

 rent fhades of afn-color : tail dulky and cuneiform: legs black,. 

 Size of a common Wild Duck. 



Sent from ConneSlicut, to Mrs. Blackhirn. Poffibly the great FtAcs. 



flocks of pretty Pied Ducks, which whittled as they flew, or as they 

 fed, feen by Mr. Lawfon * in the weftern branch of Cap^e Fear . 

 inlet,, were of this kind. 



Buffel's-head Duck, Cat^y, i. 95.— -Anas bucephala, Lin. SyJ}. zQo,~~Laiham, iii. 489. BaFyEi,s. 



— Lev. Mus. 



With a fliort blue bill : head vaftly increafed in fizeby the full- 

 nefs of the feathersi black, richly gloflTed with green and purple : 

 neck white all round: upper part of the breaft pure whiter lowerj 

 and belly, clouded with pale brown : back, primaries, and fecondaries, 

 black: the coverts on the ridge of the wings mottled, bounding the 

 others, which form a great bed of whiter tail cinereous: legs 

 ©range. 



fe, found frequently in the frefh waters of Carolina, during winter, . Piace. . 



f-Hifi. GareUsa, 148,., 



'aufey. 



