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Anas perfpicillata, Lin. Syft. i. p. 201. z^.—Pbil.Tranf. Ixii. p. 417. 

 La grande Macreufe de la Baye de Hudfon, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 425. 30. 

 La Macreufe a large bee, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 244. 

 Canard du Nord, appelle le Marchand, PL Enl. 995. 

 Great Black Duck from Hudfon's Bay, Edia. pi. 155. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



C I Z E of the Velvet Duck : length twenty-one inches : weight 

 two pounds two ounces. The bill is compreffed on the fides; 

 the bafe of the upper mandible rifes into a knob of a yellowifh 

 colour, with a black fpot on each fide of it; the reft of the bill 

 orange : the nail red ; the fides of it, all round, black : the 

 plumage is of a dull black, except a large patch of white on the 

 forehead, and another of the fame at the back part of the neck : 

 the legs are red : webs dufky. 



The female is fmaller : of a footy-colour : and has no white 

 fpot at the hind part of the head : but the cheeks are marked 

 with two dull white fpots *. 



This is wholly an American fpecies. Breeds along the fhores at 

 Hudfon's Bay ; and feeds on grafs : it alfo makes the neft with the 

 fame, lined with feathers ; and lays from four to fix white eggs : 

 hatches the end of July. Is called by the natives Mijfe qua gu ta 

 wow. In winter met with as far fouth as South Carolina, and is 

 frequently feen at New York, where it is by fome called the Coot. 

 Qur laft navigators met v/ith this in Prince William's Sound f. 



3J- 

 BLACK D, 



Description. 



Female. 



Place and 

 Manners*. 



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f: Cook's laft Voy. ii. p. 378. 



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