466 D U C K. 



26. Anas erythropus, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 197. 11.— Faun. Suec. N° 116. (the 



f-BERNACLE. male).— Fri/cb. pi. 189. 



La Bernache, Biif. Orn. vi. p. 300. 14. — Buf.Oif. ix. p. 93. pi. 5. — 



iV. Enl. 855. 

 Bernacle, or Clakis, iJa« Syn. p. 137. A. 5. — Will. Orn. p. 359. — Phil. 

 Tranf. ii. p. 853.— Gerard. Herb. p. 1587. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 269.— 

 ^nS. Zw/. N° 479. • 



Lev. Muf. 



Description, ENGTH two feet; breadth four. Bill very fhort, lefs 



than an inch and a half in length, and black, crolTed with 

 a flefh-coloured fpot on each fide : irides brown : the forehead, 

 half the crown, the fides of the head, chin, and throat, are 

 white: from the bill to the eye a black ftreak : the reft of the 

 head, neck, and-beginning of the back, black : breaft and un- 

 der parts, fides of the vent, and upper tail coverts, white : 

 thighs mottled dufky and white : round the knee black : back 

 the fame, the ends of the feathers margined with white : wing 

 coverts, and fcapulars, blue grey ; the ends black, fringed with 

 white at the tip : rump plain black : quills the fame, edged with 

 blue grey, except towards the end : tail five inches and a half 

 long, and black : legs dufky black. 

 Placi. This fpecies is not uncommon on many of the northern and 



weft em coafts of this kingdom, in winter ; but is fcarce in the 

 Jouth, and only feen in inclement feafons. Depart our ifland 

 in February, and retire north to breed ; at which time they fre- 

 quent the north of Ritffia, Lapland, Norway, and Iceland. In 

 America it is now and then met with, in Hudfon's Bay. 



This is the fpecies of which fo many authors have handed 



down 



