BU C K. 
HE length of this bird is about nineteen or twenty inches; and is 
nearly the fize of our Duck : the bill is large, growing broader at 
the end, which part is foft and membranous; colour black: irides 
blue: the upper part of the head, a large patch round the eye, and 
the back part of the neck, dufky: back and wings ferruginous brown: 
above and behind the eye a ferruginous ftreak: fome of the inner 
feathers of the wings have very pale tips, as well as the lower part of 
the rump, and acrofs the tail: the under parts from the noftrils, fides 
and front of the neck, and all beneath the body, dirty white, tranf- 
verfely mottled with grey ; towards the vent, and the fides under the 
wings, nearly black. 
Inhabits New South Wales ; but is rare: the native name is Wrongi, 
A bird with a bill of a fimilar foft texture is found at New Zealand* ; 
but as the colours of the plumage do not by any means correfpond, I 
dare not venture to fay they are allied to each other. 
HIS fpecies is about eighteen or nineteen inches in length, and 
refembles in colour the Biue-winged Shoveler, but the plumage 
is in general darker, and is deftirute of the white crefcent obferved’ 
behind the eye of the ma/z of that bird: the bill is full as large as in 
the Shoveler: the vent is black, with many mottlings of black conti- 
guous thereto: legs pale flefh colour. The female faid to differ in 
not having the vent black; in other things both fexes fufficiently, 
agree, 
%. Soft-billed Duck, Gew. Syx. p. 522, 67. 
Inhabits 
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