Class II. MORILLON BUCK. ^55 



the primaries black ; the secondaries white ; the 

 breast and belly white; the tail dusky; the sides 

 above the thighs black ; the legs yellow. 



This was bought in the London market. I 

 am doubtful of the sex. 



Mr. Cockfteid, of Stratford in Essex, favored 

 me with an account of two birds of this descrip- 

 tion, shot near the same time : both agreed in 

 colors; but one weighed twenty-six ounces, 

 the other only nineteen.* 



* Most modern naturalists have concurred in considering the 

 Morillon merely as the young of the Golden Eye, and the fact is 

 proved incontrovertibly by Dr. Latham, in his admirable treatise . ' 

 on the Tracheae of birds in the fourth volume of the Linncean 

 Transactions, p. II9. It appears, however, that the same name 

 is given occasionally to the young of the Scaup, of the Tufted 

 Duck, and probably of other species, in the immature state of -• •-? ^^U 

 their plumage. Ed. ,,> :,.,,.\ 



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