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part of the neck, and fides of it for half the length, white: the 

 lower part of the neck, and bread, mottled dufky and white: the 

 belly and under parts white : the wings not greatly differing 

 from thofe of the Smew, dufky black, with a patch of white on 

 the coverts, and two bars of the fame below : legs dufky. 



The male and female fcarcely differ, except in fize, the laft 

 being fmaller. 

 Fi-abe. What has been remarked of the Smew may be faid of this 



fpecies, in refpedl to its migrations : feen fometimes as far fouth 

 as latitude 37, being met with in the ifland Tino, in the Archi- 

 pelago ; paffing northward in fummer, in order to breed. Birds 

 of this genus are in general not fo well-flavoured as thofe of 

 the Duck kind ; yet we have often met with thefe laft in the 

 London markets, and by fome are thought to be very little in- 

 ferior to the Wild Duck ; which laft now and then partakes of 

 the fijhy haut gout, a flavour not difagreeable to the palates of 

 the connoijfeurs in good eating. 



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