470 DUCK. 



bill and eye blackifh : the inner half of each tail feather white, 

 the outer black. 

 Place. Thefe inhabit America ; found about the fouthern fettlements 



oiHudfon's Bay. In fummer moft numerous about Albany Fort. 

 Migrate according to the feafon, like many of the Duck kind. 

 Known there by the name of Cath catue We We*. 



29. Anas molliffima, Lin. Syjl. 1. p. 198. 15. — Faun. Suec. N° 117. — Brun. 



•i- EIDER D. N o 66.— U. Monogr. pi. 1, z.—Mulhr, N° 1 16. 



L'Oye a duvet, ou l'Eider, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 294. pi. 29. 30. — Buf. Oif. ix. 



p. 103. pi. 6. — PL Enl. 209. (male.) 208. (female.) 

 Great black and white Duck, Ediv. pi. 98. (male and female.) 

 Eider, or Cuthbert, Duck, Rati Sjn. p. 14.1. A. 3. — Wiil. Orn. p. 362. § i. 

 and ii. pi. 76. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 271. pi. 95. — Ar3. Zool. N° 4S0.— 

 Tour in Scotl. 8vo. p. 35. 



Lev. Miff. 



Description. HrHIS is lefs than a Goofe, and one foot ten inches in length. 

 Male. The bill two inches long, and black ; the feathers on each fide 



of it come very forward almoft to the noftrils : the top of the head s 

 taking in the eyes, is black, and continued in a line of the fame 

 on each fide, where the feathers projecl: on the bill : below the 

 nape, on each fide of the neck, the colour is pale pea-green : the 

 reft of the head, neck, breaft, and back, wing coverts, and fcapu- 

 lars, are white ; the laft curved at the ends, and hang over the 

 quills, which are black; as are alfo the tail and under parts from 

 the breaft : the legs are of a dull green. 



This is the defcription of an old male, which does not come to 

 the complete drefs till the fourth year. In the firft, the back is 



* Mr. Hutcbinu 



9 white, 



