G A D W A L L. ^ 575 



Wild Duck. Length twenty inches. Extent two feet three. 

 Weight near twenty-three ounces. 



}nha.hits Europe, -perhaps not higher than Sweden, Is not uncom- Place. 



men about the Cafpian fea, and afcends its rivers, but not far up. Is 

 fometimes ieen in the great lakes on the-eaft fide of the Urallian chain -, 

 but not in the reft of Sihiria. Is found in plenty about Aleppo, dur- 

 ing winter*: and taken in great numbers in the JV//^, in nets, juffc 

 before the waters have quite fubfided f . Thefe probably retire north 

 to breed. The Germans call this fpecies Pfeijf-ent,, or the Fifing 

 Duck, from its acute note. The Frenchj for the fame reafon, call it 

 le Canard Jiffieur : and the Englijh,. the Whewer. My Bimaculated 

 Duck, Br. Zool. ii. N° 287, has been difcovered, by Doftor Pallas^ 

 along the Lena, and about lake Baikal ; and a defcription fent by him 

 to the Royal Academy at Stockholm, under the title of Attas GlocitanSy 

 or the Clucking DUck, irom Its -^xn^ViXdir nx)te. 



L. Gadwall, Br. Zool. ii. N° 28?,' — Anas ftrepera, Faun. Suec. N" 121.— Le Chipeauj 

 Pi. Enl. 958. — Latham, iii. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



With a black flat bill : head and upper part of the neck reddifh, 

 fpot-ted with black: breaft, upper part of the back, and fcapu- 

 Jars, elegantly marked with black and white lines : belly dirty white : 

 coverts on the ridge of the wings reddifh brown ; the next purplifli 

 red, with a border of black : primaries dufliy : fpeculum^white : tail 

 cinereous : ' legs orange. Breaft of the female reddifh brown, fpotted 

 with black : other colors fimilar, but more dull. Rather lefs than a 



WiGEON. 



This fpecies does not feem to advance higher in Europe than Swe^ ' PtAcs, 

 den. In the Ruffian empire extends over moft of the latitudes of the 

 European and Sibirian part, except thie eaft of Sibrria, and. Kamt' 

 fchatka^ - 



•KnffeiriAhpt'' \ mffelguiJ},t%Z. 



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