476 D U C K. 



j i. Anai mofchatus, Lin. SyJI. i. p. 199. 16. — Faun. Sutc. N° 1 1 $.—Scop. Ann. i. 



MUSCOVY D. N ° 8 S .-Frifcb, pi. 180. 



Le Canard Mufque, Br!/. Orn. vi. p. 313. 3. — Buf. Oif. ix. p. 162. pi. 9. 



(female.)— PL Enl. 989. 

 Anas Sylveftris Brafilienfis, Rait Sjn. p. 148. 1 *. 

 Ipeca guacu, Id. p. 149. ^.—Will. Orn. p. 383. pi. 6z. 

 Mufcovy Duck, Raii Syn. p. 150. 3. — 191. 11. 

 ——————-, Cairo Duck, Guinea Duck, Indian Duck, Will. Orn. 



p. 381. 382. — Albin, iii. pi. 97. 98. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Description. "DIGGER than the Wild Duck : length two feet. Bill two 



inches long, and red, except about the noftrils and tip, 



where it is brown : the eyes are furrounded with a naked fkin, 



which is warted and red: the crown of the head is black: the 



fides of it, the throat, and fore part of the neck, white, varied 



with black : the lower part of the neck, breaft, fides, lower belly, 



and thighs, brown, a little mixed with white : the back and 



rump brown, gloried with green gold : the upper part of the 



belly white : the three firft quills are white; the nine next dufky 



brown ; the reft brown, edged outwardly and tipped with green 



gold : the tail confifts of twenty feathers, the outer one on each 



fide is white, the others green gold : the legs red. 



Fimale. The female is lefs, but not greatly differing in colour : the ca- 



runculated fpace about the head much fmaller in circumference, 



and lefs vivid in colour. 



Place and This fpecies is fufficiently known, being pretty common in a 



Manners. 



* Ray's bird was wholly black, gloffed with green, except the wing coverts* 



which were white : fuch an one is now in the Hunterian Mufeum. I obferved in 



this fpecimen a Ihort black tubercle at the bend of the wing. This bird came 



from Cayenne. 



S domefticated 



