DUCK, 473 



natives kill them on the water with darts, ftriking them the 

 moment they appear after diving j and know the place from their 

 being preceded by the rifing of bubbles. The flefh is faid to be 

 much valued. Are faid to live to a very great age, and at this 

 period to become quite grey *. 



Anas fpe&abilis, Lin. Syji. i. p. 195. 5.— Faun, Suec. N° 1 1 3.— -Miff. Ad. , 



Fr. ii. p. zs.—Mul/er, N° 108. KING D. 



Le Canard de la Baye de Hudfon, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 365. 15. 



1 a tete grife, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 253. 

 Grey-headed Duck, Edw. pi. 154. 

 King Duck, Ara. Zool. N° 481. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE between a Busk and a Goofe : length near two feet. The Description. 



bill almoft two inches long, and of an orange-colour ; on the 

 upper mandible is a femicircular ridged protuberance, com- 

 preffed on the fides and flat on the top, where it is divided into 

 two j the elevated parts are of a velvet black, paffing on each 

 fide in a line to the eyes : the crown of the head, and nape, are 

 of an elegant pale afh-colour : at the bafe of the upper mandi- 

 ble, the feathers are pea-green, paffing backwards on each fide the 

 neck, and taking in half the eye : beneath this, and round to the 

 chin, dirty white, but the green and white blend themfelves, the 

 laft lofing itfelf by degrees in the other: under the chin are 

 two black ftreaks, meeting in a point at top, and diverging as 

 they advance downwards, like the letter V inverted : the reft of 

 the neck, and bread, are whitifh : the middle of the back, the 



* Ara. Zool. 

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