MORILLON, AND TUFTED D U C K.^ 573 



Inhabits the morafles o? Iceland. Lays ^ from feven to nine eggs. Place. 



I"s a fcairce fpecies. The account of it was communicated to me by 

 M. Brunnich, from the catalogue of Doiflor Biorno Paulfen. The 

 Icelanders C2l\\ ix. Gulaund. 



Fl MoRiLLON, Br. Zool. ii. N" 277. — Anas Ghucion. Brunnaeke, Faun, Succ. N° 123.- 

 — Latham,' III. — Lev. Mus. 



With dudcy ruft-colored head : irides gold-colored : neck 

 with a white collar ^ and beneath that another, broader, of 

 grey: back and coverts of wings duflcy, marked with a few white 

 ftripes : greater coverts dufky, with a few great white fpots : pri- 

 , maries and tail black: fecondaries white: bread and belly white: 

 above the thighs black: legs. yellow. Rather lefs than the Golden . 

 Eye. 



Inhabits as high as Sweden: is found, but rarely, even in Greenland* : Placj 



or may be fuppofed to be feen in the intermediate parts. Is frequent 

 in every place in Rujia and Sibiria, and even in Kamtjchatka^ 



G. Tufted, 5r. Zoo/, ii. N° 274. — Anas fuHgula, Wigge, Faun. Suec. N° 132.— >-- 

 Le Morillon, PL Enl. sooi. — Latham^ iii. — Lev. Mus. — 3l. Mus. 



^^ With a thick, fhort, pendent creft: belly and under coverts of 

 the wings pure white: primaries dufky; part of their inner 

 -webs white : fecondaries white, tipt with black : all the reft .of the. 

 plumage black ; about the head gloffed with violet : legs blueifh grey. . 

 Weight two pounds. Length fifteen inches. 



Inhabits Europe, as high as Norway. Common in all latitudes of Placs 



the Rujfian empire; but commonly travels northward to breed, . 

 Erequent in Kamtfchatka,. 



* Feun. Groiitl. N» 



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