WHISTLING-DUCK. 



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primaries dufky : belly grey and brown : tail deep grey : legs lead- r 



colored. In the Female the head rufty brown : breaft rather dark- Fbmals. 



cr : belly and coverts of wings cinereous : back like that of the 

 male : legs lead-colored. Length nineteen inches. Extent two 

 feet and a half. Weight one pound twelve ounces. 



Inhabits Norib America, in winter, as low as Carolina * ; and, I Pj-ack. 



believe, is the Red-headed Duck of Lawjon. Is found, in Europe^ 

 as high as Brontheim. Is met with in the great rivers and lakes in 

 all latitudes of the Ruffian empire. A frefh-water Duck, and of ex- 

 cellent tafte. 



Black-billed Whiftling Duck, £'a'iy. ig^ ■\.— Latham, ill. 492, WHiSTtJwc. 



Anas Arborea, Lin. Syji. 207.— Whiftlers, Catejij, App. xxxvii LatufoH 



Carolina, 149. — Lsv. Mus. 



ir\^ With a black bill, and crown flightly crefted : cheeks brown : 

 hind part of the neck dufky ; fore part white, fpotted with 

 black : back and wings brown ; coverts fpotted with black: tail and 

 its coverts black : breaft of a dark reddifli color, fpotted with black : 

 belly white, mixed on the fides with black : legs long, and of a, 

 lead-color i hind claw placed high up the leg. Lefler than a Tame 

 Duck. Defcribed from Mr. Edwards. 



Inhabits South Carolina and Jamaica. Is, from its voice, called Flags. 



the WhiJilingDuck : perches on trees. Placed here merely on the au- 

 ' thority of the name given it by Law/on and Catejby. The laft fays, 

 that it frequents the coafts of Carolina during winter ; which makes 

 me doubt, whether Mr. Edwards's bird, a native of Jamaica, is the 

 fame : for it may be held as a rule, that the water-fowl of hot 

 cjimates never retire in winter to colder; and that thofe of ArHic 

 climates almoft generally retire from them into warmer. Clouds of 

 birds annually quit Hudjon's Bay, and other fevere climates, at ap- 

 proach of winter j ftock the different latitudes of North America i 



* Caiejiy, A^-p. t Probably not the female of £</wflr<j'j's Duck, 194. 



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