Mann-ers. 



DUCK. 44 t 



out any fpeculum, otherwife like the firft: whether a young bird., 

 or different in fex, is uncertain *. 



Inhabits Falkland IJles, where it is called the Ballard Goofe. It Place and 

 flands pretty high on its legs, which ferve to elevate it above 

 the tall grafsj and its long neck to obferve any danger : it walki 

 and flies with great eafe ; and has not that difagreeable cackling 

 cry peculiar to the refc of its kind : it generally lays fix eggs : 

 the flefh is accounted wholefome, nourifhing, and palatable;, 

 and it feldorn happened that there was any fcarcity of it. 



SIZE of a large Duck. Bill one inch and a half long, and 6. 



ur i l Z r J ■ u j j i u i ir VARIEGATE: 



black at the bate and tip : head, and neck above halt way, q-. 



white: lower part of the neck, and bread, deep red brown, beau- Description 

 tifully mottled with black and white: back brown black, mottled 

 with white: over the thighs the fame: all the under parts mark- 

 ed as the lower part of the neck : rump and vent ferruginous r 

 wing coverts white : fecondary quill's green ; greater quills and' 

 tail black : legs- black- 

 Inhabits New Zealand:, found at Dujky Bay, in April : called Placed 

 there Pooa dugghee iuggbee. From the drawing of Sir Jofeph Banks. 

 This feems to be the bird mentioned in Forfter's Voyage f, which 

 he fays is the fize of the Eider Duck : plumage blackifh brown, 

 elegantly fprinkled with white : rump and vent ferruginous : ie- 



* M. Bougainville calls "Cat female yellow ; and fays, that its wings are adorn- 

 ed with changing colours. See Voy. p. 59. — Perhaps he means our Magellanic 

 fpecies. — He obferves, that this, the Black Swan, and other Ducks, have in 1 

 this climate a very foft down under the feathers, of a grey colour, and very 

 thick. 



t i. p- 156. 



Vol. Ill, ^ L. eondaries* 



