ORDER PALMIPEDES. (309 



Loggerhead Goose, Phil. Trans. Ixvi. An. Brachyp- 

 tera, Lath. Voy. du Freyc. pi. 39. 



Head and neck, and upper part of body, ash ; wings, 

 white-banded ; beneath, dusky ; vent, white ; bill, 

 orange, with black tip. Falkland Islands. 



Race Horse, Wallis and Cook Voy. Anas Cinerea, 

 Gmel. The genus Micropterus, Lesson, from its short 

 wings. 



New Holland produces a speckled species, remark- 

 able for a large fleshy appendage under the bill. 



The genus Biziura^ Leach, and Hydrobates, Lesson. 



Lohate Duck, Shaw. An. Lohata, Nat. Mis. viij. 

 pi. 255, and Col, 406. Biziura Novcb Hollandice, 

 Leach. 



Dusky black, crossed with pale lines ; quills and tail, 

 black ; knob on wings. 



We may, moreover, separate 



The Garrots. Clangula, Leach, 



Whose bill is shorter and narrower in front. At the 

 head of these we may place the species whose tail 

 has the middle quills longest, which make it pointed. 



The genus Histrionicus, Lesson. 



Such are 



The Long-tailed Duck. An. Glacialis, Lin. Enl. 



1008. Edw. 280. Naum. 5% f 76. Wilson, 



Am. viij. 70, f 2. The young male, Enl. 999. 



Naum. 52, f. 76, B. The adult in the breeding 



season, Edw. 156. 

 White, with a yellow spot on the cheeks, and sides of 



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