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DUCK. 



33- 

 WHITE-HEAD- 

 ED D. 



Description. 



Placi. 



Anas leucocephala, Scop. Ann. i. N° 79. 

 White-headed Duck, Shaw's Tra<v. p. 254 ? 



C I Z E of the Mallard. Bill broad, furrowed at the bafe, and 

 of a pale blue : head white.; crown black : collar the fame * '- 

 bread chefnut brown, variegated at the lower part with tranfverfe 

 black lines : belly grey, marked with fmall black fpots : back 

 rufous : wings the fame, but paler, marked with lines and dots of 

 brown : quiils and tail brown. 



In the Mufeum of Count Teffin. From whence unknown. If 

 the bird quoted above, of Shaw, is found in Barbary. 



34- 

 GEORGIA D. 



Description. 



Place. 



T ENGTH twenty inches. Bill two inches, turning up a 

 little at the end ; colour yellow; edges and tip dufky black : 

 irides reddifh brown : the head and neck pale reddifh a(h-colour, 

 lighted on the fore part, and minutely dafhed with dufky dreaks : 

 the upper parts of the body pale reddifh alh-colour, marked with 

 dufky fpots : fcapulars the fame, but deeper in colour: wing co- 

 verts pale afh-colour : fpeculum of the wings pale verdigris 

 green, edged with dufky, bounded above and beneath with a 

 bar of white : fides pale cinereous, marked with fpots of a deeper 

 colour : quills and tail dufky : legs greenifh afh-colour. 



This was found in South Georgia, the middle of January, and 

 was a male bird ; the flefh was thought good eating. 



From the drawings of Sir Jojeph Banks. 



Another, fomething fimilar to this, was met with at the Cape 

 ef Good Hope. The general colour dufky afh, mottled on the 

 bread with white. 



* We may fuppofe round the neck, but it is not faid fo. 



Anas 



