.MALLARD/ \ 5.53 



down on the backs of the old ones, to whom the Ducklings adhere 

 clofely with their bills. It often neftles on the bodies or boughs of 

 trees which have fallen over the ftreams which run up the woods. It 

 appears in New Tork, in the latter end of February or beginning of 

 March, and retires towards the fcuth at approach of winter. They 

 are very delicate eating. The Mexicans call it Tzta£lzonyayauhquiy 

 or the bird of the various-cohred head. It is there migratory. The 

 natives feign that, from the fituation of its legs, it cannot ftand. 



5r. 2W. ii.N' 279. —Anas Bofchas. Gras-and, Blanacke,i^aa«. Jaw.N" 131.— 45^. Mallard. 

 Pb.Tranf. Ixii. 419.—/'/. Enl. 776, ■}■;■] i— Latham, iii. «— Lrv. Mas. 



— Bl. Mus. 



T^ With a bill of a yellowifh green : head and neck of a fhining 

 changeable green : on the front of the lower part of the neck is 

 3 femicircle of white : bread of a purplifli red : lower part of the 

 backj and belly, grey, crofled with fpeckled lines of black : fpeculum 

 purple : four middle feathers of the tail curled upwards : legs fafFron- 

 colored. Female is of a pale reddilh brown, fpotted with black. 

 Length twenty-three inches. Extent thirty-five. Weight about 

 two pounds and a half. 



"Inhabits the northern parts of North America-, from Hudfon's Bay Placs. 



to Carolina * : is frequent in Greenland, and continues there the whole 

 year. Arrives in Hudfon's Bay in May : retires in OSiober. Is com- 

 mon in all latitudes of the Ruffian empire : and was obferved by 

 Steller in the Aleutian iflands. In Sweden retires in winter to the 

 Ihores of Schonen ; but in fevere feafons pafles over to Denmark and 

 Germany, poflibly to England; for this ifland can hardly fupply the 

 vafb wintery flocks* 



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