DUCK. 435 



Oifeaux grifes, ou Oies de plein, Pernet. Voy. ii. ch. 19. p. 21; 4. 



Racehorfe Duck, Pernet. Journ. p. 213, 214. LOGGERHEAD 



Loggerhead, Phil. Tranf. vol. lxvi. p. 104. — Pew. Falk. IJl. p. 3;,— /"or/?. 

 V-oy. ii. p. 492. r 



ENGTH thirty-two inches *. Bill three inches long ; co- Description. 

 lour orange ; the top of the upper mandible brown at the 

 bafe ; the tip black: irides orange, furrounded with black, and 

 then with orange : the head and neck deep afh-colour : upper 

 parts of the body much the fame : the outer edge of the fecon- 

 daries white, forming a band of the fame on the wing : the un- 

 der parts of the body dufky down the middle : over the thighs 

 cinereous blue: vent white: quills and tail black; the laff. fhort, 

 and pointed in fhape: the wings are likewife very fhort, not 

 reaching to the rump : on the bend of the wing a yellow knob, 

 half an inch in length : the legs are brownifh orange : webs 

 dufky : claws black. 



Thefe inhabit Falkland I/lands, Staaten Land, &c. and were Place. 



moftly feen in pairs, though fometimes they were obferved in 

 large flocks. From the fhortnefs of the wings they were unable 

 to fly ; but they made conflderable ufe of them when in the wa- 

 ter, on which they feemed as it were to run, at leaft they fwam, 

 with the afliftance of the wings, ufed as oars, at an incredible 

 rate, infomuch that it was a moft difficult thing to fhoot them, 

 while on that element : to catch them, the Jailors ufed to furround 



* Some of our voyagers call the weight of it nineteen or twenty pounds ; 

 but others found it to be not lefs than twenty-nine or thirty.— See Cook's Voy. 

 ii. p. 204. 



a flock 



