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thers of the forehead produced forward on each fide of the upper 

 mandible : the lower part of, the neck and breafi white, marked 

 • acrofs with numerous narrow black bars : the upper part of the 

 back pa4e grey, barred in the fame manner with black : the lower 

 part of the back and fcapulars dufky afh : wing coverts white : 

 at the bend of the wing a blunt knob : fecondary quills dufky, 

 with pale edges ; prime quills and tail black: the middle of the 

 belly, thighs, and vent, white : over the thighs barred dufky 

 and white : legs black. 

 Place. This was met with at Slaaten-Land, in January. From Sir 



Jofeph Banks's drawings. It appears to be the Painted Duck, men- 

 tioned by Captain Cook *, which he fays is the fize of the 

 Mufcovy Duck : the plumage molt beautifully variegated : the 

 head and neck of the female white ; but all the other feathers, as 

 well as thofe of the head and neck of the drake, are of a dark 

 variegated colour : both male and female have a large fpot of white 

 on the wins;. 



We are not perfectly clear, in refpecl to the five laft numbers, 

 whether they form more or fewer real fpecies than we have 

 feparated them into ; moft likely the laft, as they appear to run 

 much one into another ■, and we will be much obliged to future 

 yoyagers for better information. 



* Cook. Voy. i. p. 96. 



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