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and return in fpring to encreafe and multiply. To the conftitutions 

 of the Summer Duck, a very few other water- fowl, and to many land- 

 birds, the warm temperature of the Carolinas is climate fufEciently 

 north. They are driven, by the exceflive heat and arid foil of the 

 Antilles and Guiana, to the moift favannaa and woods of thefe pro- 

 vinces, there to difcharge the firfl: great command. 



493. SuM-MER. Summer Duck, Ca/^/%1, i. 97 — Ediu. loi, — Anas Sponfa, Lin. Sj^Jl. zo-j, 



Le beau Canard hupe de la Caroline, EL Enl. 980. — Latham, Ui. — LlEv«. 



Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



T^^ "With the ridge and nail of the upper mandible black ;. lower- 

 part fcarlet : on the head a beautiful creft, hanging half down- 

 ;^jlie i}eck, and beginning at the bafe of the bill j upper part fhining 

 purple ; beneath that a line of white;, then fucceeds purple; and that: 

 again is bounded by white : cheeks purplifh and green : throat, and 

 part of the neck, pure white : from the hind part of the neck a bead 

 of purple divides the whitCj, and points towards the throat : reft of 

 the neck and breaft ferruginous, fpotted with white triangular fpotsr 

 belly white: feathers of the fides,, which hide part of the wingSj, 

 elegantly marked downwards with incurvated lines of black and 

 white : back deep brown, glofled with, copper and green : primaries 

 dufky : fecondaries refplendent blue : cov^^rts of the tail, and tail it- 

 felf, dufky, gloffed with green : legs dirty orange. Head of the- 

 Female of a deep brown ; crefted,. but not fo much as the Drake r 

 back deep brown: cheeks brown: behind eacbeye a white fpot r 

 throat white : neck and breaft reddifh brown, with white fagittal 

 fpots : belly white. Lengtkj from the bill to the tip of the tail, 

 near nineteen inches. Exjent about thirty. 

 Kaee.. This moft elegant fpecies is found from Nsw Terk to tht Antilles, 



and alfo in Mexico. It pafles the fummer in Carolina-, and in a 

 lingular manner makes its neft in the holes made by Woodpeckers 

 in the loftieft trees, which grow near the water, . efpecially the deci- 

 duous cypr^fs, "When the young are hatched,, they are conveyed 



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