Class II. 



GADWALL DUCK. 



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black; the hind part of the neck, and back, dark 

 brown waved with black ; the coverts of the 

 wings ash colored ; the lower coverts streaked 

 with rust color ; the scapulars cinereous ; the 

 quil feathers brownish cinereous; the secon- 

 daries of a fine green, ending in a shade of 

 black, and edged with white ; the coverts of the 

 tail a deep changeable green ; the tail consists 

 of twelve feathers, the two middlemost black ; 

 the others brown edged with white ; the belly is 

 dusky, finely granulated; the legs small, and 

 yellow ; the webs dusky. 



Taken in a decoy in 1771, and conmimu- 

 nicated to me by Edward Poore, Esq. 



Anas strepera. A. speculo ala- 

 rum rufo nigro albo. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 85g. id. Syn. vi. 

 615. id. Sup. 11.353. 



Anas strepera (ein Leiner). 

 Gesner av. 121. 



Aldr. av. iil. 97. 



Gadwall, or Gray. JFil. orn. 

 374. 



Raii Syn. av. 145. 



Le Chipeau. Brisson av. vi. 



339. tal. 33. fig. 1. Hist. 



d'ois. ix. 187- PL Enl. 



958. 

 Anas strepera. Gm. Lin. 520. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 121. 

 Cimlris Knarre-Gaas. Brun- 



nick, Q 1 . 

 Grave mittel-ente. Frisch, ii. 



168. 

 Br. Zool. 157. Tah. Q. 3. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 303. 



27- Gad- 

 wall. 



X HIS species is rather inferior in size to the D 

 wigeon. The bill is two inches long, black, 



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ESCRlP- 

 TION. 



