254 MORILLON DUCK. Class II. 



as are the coverts immediately above them ; the 

 legs of an orange color. 

 Female. The head of the female* is of a deep brown, 

 tinged with red ; the neck grey ; the breast and 

 belly white ; the coverts and scapulars dusky and 

 ash colored ; the middle qui! feathers white ; the 

 others, together with the tail, black; the legs 

 dusky. These birds frequent fresh water, as 

 well as the sea; being found on the Shropshire 

 meres during winter. 



(A.) MoRiL- Anas Glaucion. A. corpore Brisson av. vi. 406. tah. SQ.f. 



nigricante, pectore nebulo- 1 . 2. 



so, speculo alarum albo li- Anas glaucion. Gm. Lin. 201. 



neari. Lath. Ind. orn, 868. Scopoli, No. 72, 



id, Syn. vi. 537. Grey headed Duck. Br. Zool. 



LeMorillon. jBe/ow, l65. Ed. 2d. ri. 471- 



Wil.0Tn.36B. Morillon. ^rc^. Zoo/, ii. 300. 

 Rait Syn. av. 144. 



Descrip- J[ j^ jg jg rather less than the Golden eye duck. 

 The bill is of a yellowish brown ; the irides gold 

 color; the head of a dusky rust color ; round the 

 ^ upper part of the neck is a collar of white, be- 

 neath that a broader of grey ; the back and co- 

 verts dusky, with a few white lines ; the greater 

 coverts dusky, with a few great spots of white ; 



* The smaller red headed Duck. Wil. orn. 36g. Rail Syn. 

 aw. 143. 



