SCAUPANDBROWNDUCK. 



around the neck a black glofly color : back of the fame color : coverts 

 of the wings white: primaries dufliy : fecondaries black, tipt with 

 white : breaft and fides of a light yellowifh brown : belly, vent, and 

 tail, black. Size of a Wigeon. 



Brought by the late navigators from the weftern fide of America •, 

 but had been before difcovered by Steller to breed among the inac- 

 ceffible rocks about Kamtfchatka j to flyin flocks, and never to enter 

 the mouths of rivers. 



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Place. 



Br. Zool. ii. N" 275. — Anas marila, Faun. Suee. N" ill. — Ph. Tranf. Ixii. 413.— 498. Scaup. 

 Le Millouinan, Pi. Enl. 1002. — Latham, iii. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



■p\ With a broad, flat, and blueifli grey bill : irides yellow : head 

 and neck black, glofled with green : breaft black : back, coverts 

 of the wings, and fcapulars, marked with numbers of tranfverfe lines 

 of black and grey : primaries duflcy : fecondaries white, tipt with 

 black : belly white : tail, coverts, and vent feathers, black : legs 

 dulky. Male weighs a pound and a half: female two ounces more. 

 Length fixteen inches and a half. Extent twenty inches. 



Inhabits America, as high as Hudjon's Bay : comes there in May j PiACE. 



retires in OSiober. Is found in Iceland, and moft part of the north of 

 Europe. Are common on the northern fhores of Rujfia and Sibiria ; 

 and are moft frequent about the great river Ob : migrate fouthward : 

 dive much : and feed on fhell-filh. 



With a large blueifli bill : head and neck of a very pale brown : 499. Brown. 

 lower part of the laft, and breaft, of the fame color, edged with 

 ruft-color : wings cinereous grey : fpeculum blue, tipt with white : 

 tail and legs duflcy. 

 Inhabits Newfoundland. ' Placeo 



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