574 ^ HRAFN-OND, FALCATED DUCK, AND WIGEOK. 



H. Hrafn-ond, Olaffen Iceland, feft. 6%%.— Mutter, N° xdi.—Lathcm, Hi. 



With a crefled head, black above : under fide of the neck, breaft, 

 and belly, white : legs fafFron-colored. ■ 



?LACE. Inhabits 7ffA7;?d'. Whether a variety of the former? for the J«- 



landers fcyle that fpecies TIrafas-aund*. 



I. Falcated. Anas Fakaria, Pallas Ititt, ill. 701. — Latham, iii. 



1^ With a fmall dufliy bill : feathers above the bafe of the upper 

 mandible white : middle of the head pale ruft : reft of the head 

 filky green, variable, and changing, on the fides of the neck, to re- 

 folendent-copper : from the head to the hind part of the neck is a 

 creft clofely comprelTed, and ending in an angle: throat and half the 

 fore part of the neck white; which color encircles the neck, and is 

 bounded above by another of variable black and green; the reft of 

 the neck, and the breaft, elegantly marked with femicircles of grey 

 and black : the back and wings undulated with the fame colors : the 

 fpeculum of the color of polifhed fteel, edged with white : five laft 

 fecondaries long and falcated, .of a violet-color edged with white: 

 vent white, crofled with a black bar : legs du(ls:y. Size of a 

 Wigeon. 

 Plage. Found, but rarely, in Kamtfchatka. Frequent in the eaft of Sz^m^, 



from the 7(?K^/« to the 'Lena, and beyond lake Baikal. None in tlie 

 weft. Probably winters in Chma and the Mongalian deferts. 



K. WicEON, Br. Zool. ii. N" 286. — Anas Penelope, Wriand, Faun. Suec. N*" 124. 

 — Le Canard fiffleur, PL Enl. 825. — Latham, iii. — tLev. Mus. — Bl, Mus. 



)^ W^lth forehead whitifli : head and upper part of the neck of a 



bright light bay : hind.part of the head, and breaft, vinaceous : 



in other refpefts like the American Icind. Female colored like a 



• Bierne's Lift. 



Wild 



