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white: reft of the head, neck, back, and breaft, coverts of the 

 wings, and primaries, deep brow/n : fcapulars and fecondaries nifty : 

 belly white : tail and legs like thofe of the Male. 



Inhabits to the extreme north. Breeds in Hudfon's Bay and Green- Place. 



land, among the ftones and grafs : makes its neft, like the Eider, with 

 the down of its own breaft j which is equal in value to that of 

 the Eider, if it could be got in equal quantity ; but the fpecies is 

 fcarcer. It lays five eggs: fwims and dives admirably: and feeds on 

 Ihell-fifh, which it gets in very deep water. Flies irregularly, fome- 

 times ftiewing its back, fometimes its belly. Continues in Greenland 

 the whole year, in unfrozen places * : but there are feafons fo very 

 fevere, as at times to force them towards the fouth. Thofe which 

 breed between Lapland and the polar circle, are often driven into 

 Sweden, and the neighborhood of Peter/burg : thofe from the coaft 

 ©f the ley fea, as low as lat. 55 ; but on the fetting in of froft, retire 

 ftill further foufh, unlefs where fome open fpots remain in the rivers. 

 Vifit the frefti-water lakes in the Orknies, in O£ioher, and continue 

 there till A-pril. At fun-fet they are feen, in great flocks, returning 

 to and from the bays, where they frequently pafs the night, and 

 make fuch a noife as to be heard fome miles in frofty weather. 

 Their found is like Aan-gitche, and is faid not to be difagrceable. 

 Steller, who obferved them in Kamtfchatka -f, fays, that their larynx 

 has three openings, covered with a thin (I fupofe valvular) mem- 

 brane, which forms the Angularity of the voice. La Sarcelle de 

 Eeroe, or the Feroe Teal, of M. Briffbn J, is probably conjeftured, by 

 M. Brunnich^ to be only a variety of this fpecies : feemingly a female. . 



Le Canard Jenfen de la Louifiane, P!. Enl, 955. — Latham, iii. —Lev. Mus. 50Z. American 



WXCEON. . 



1~\. With a lead-Golored bill, tipt with black: crown and forehead 

 yellowifh white : hind part of the head, and whole neck, prettily , 

 ipeckled with black and white : behind each eye is a large black Jpot, , 



'^Faun.Grvenlp.y^- \ J)tfsn, du Kamtfchatka, i,()'&> J vi. 466. . 



tab, xJ.— ^PA^b/. 999. 



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