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DUCK. 



whole of the belly, and vent, black: wings dufky, on the mid- 

 dle of the coverts white : all the quills black : the fecondaries 

 curve downwards over the quills ; the fhafts deep ferruginous ; 

 on each fide of the outer ones a patch of white : tail cuneiform, 

 fliort, black : legs black brown. 

 Female. The female is lefs : the gibbous part of the bill not fo big,, 



nor fo high-coloured ; but the feathery ridge on the top is 

 broader : the colour of both bill and legs i& more dull, inclining 

 to brown : the whole plumage brown, the middle of each fea- 

 ther black : the head and neck paleft : the throat inclining much- 

 to brown : the belly, the fourteen firft quills, and the adjoining, 

 coverts, are brownifh ; the fix next are tipped with white, hence 

 is produced a line of white on the wing : tail as the quills. 



The young males, like the females, do not get the compreffed 

 gibbofity of the bill, nor the colour of the plumage, till advanced, 

 years. 



One in the Leverian Mufeum, which we fufpeft to be the 

 young male, has the bill of a dufky red, nail black ; the elevation- 

 at the bafe much lefs confiderable : head and neck brownifh afh- 

 colour : top of the head ftreaked with a few white lines at the 

 back part: body and wings dull black: on the middle of the 

 wing coverts a large patch of white, as in the male, and another 

 in the middle of the back : legs reddifh brown. 

 Place and This beautiful fpecies is found at Hudfon's Bay. In plenty at 



Manners. Churchill River, in 59 degrees north latitude, where the birds re- 

 main fo long as the water is unfrozen. Scarce at Tork Fort.. 

 Build on the fides of ponds and rivers ; the neft made of flicks and 

 mojs, and lined with feathers from the breaft, as in the Eider 

 Duck. The eggs are four or five in number, whitifh, and as 

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