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Vatus-ond : alfo in the Ruffian dominions, about the great rivers 

 of Sibiria, and the lake Baikal. Frequent in Greenland in the 

 fummer, where it breeds on the mores. The eggs like thofe of a 

 Wild Duck, but fmaller and whiter. It dives well, and is very 

 active in the water ; but the Greenlanders often take it by darts 

 thrown at it, efpecially in Auguft, being the time when it is in 

 moult. Frequent in Newfoundland ■, and often appears at Hudfon's 

 Bay in large flocks, but is obferved to be of a larger fize there 

 than in Europe. They generally come in pairs the beginning of 

 June, as foon as the ice breaks up ; and make the neft foon after 

 their arrival, chiefly on dry fpots of ground in the iflands. Lay 

 from eight to thirteen white eggs, the fize of thofe of a Duck : the 

 neft made of withered grafs, and lined with the down of the 

 breaft. The young are of a dirty brown, like young Gojlings. 

 They all depart fouth in Oclober, to the lakes, where they may 

 have open water. They are known at Hudfon's Bay by the name 

 oiAs-fick*. 



L'Harle blanc & noir, Brif. Orn. \\. p. 250. 4. . 



—— — a manteau noir, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 250. Var. A. 



■ noir, Brif- Orn. vi. p. 251. 5. 



CIZE of the laft. The head, hind part of the neck, back, fca- Description. 



pulars, and rump, black : upper tail coverts brown : all the 

 under parts white; as are the lefler wing coverts, and the greater 

 ones neareft the body ; the outer ones and quills black : tail 

 brown : legs red. 



This is a variety of the male. 



• Mr. Hutcbins. 

 Vol. HI. 3 I L'Harle 



