482 D U C K. 



J7- -Anas fufca, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 196. 6. — Faun. Suee. N° log— Scop. Ann. i. 



+- VELVET D. N o ^.—JBrun. n<> ^.—MuJ.'er, N° log.—Fri/ch. pi. 165.— Gwrgj 



i?£//£, p. 1 66. 



Turpan, JV. C. iW. iv. p. 420. 



La grande Macreufe, Brif. Om. vi. p. 423. 29. — P/. Enl. 956. 

 La double Macreufe, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 242. 



Great Black Duck, Rati Syn* p. 141. A. 4. — Will. Om. p. 363. pi. 70. 

 Velvet Duck, Br. Zcel. ii. N° 272. pi. 96. — Ara. Zool. N° 482. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. ^ Trifle larger than a Mallard: length fomewhat more than 



twenty inches. The bill rifes into a knob at the bafe, behind 

 the noftrils, where it is black ; the reft of the bill is yellow, with 

 the nail at the end red ; the edges, all round, black : the plu- 

 mage, in general, is black; inclined to brown on the belly and 

 vent : under each eye-lid a white mark, pafling in a ftreak be- 

 hind the eye; and acrofs the middle of the wing a band of white : 

 the legs are red : claws black. 

 Female.. The female is brown where the male is black, and the protu- 



berance at the bafe of the bill wanting. 



Mr. Hutchins favoured me with the defcription of a bird which 

 I take to be a variety of the above. Length fixteen inches : 

 breadth twenty-feven : weight twenty-one ounces. Irides dirty 

 white : forehead of a dark brown : crown black : under each eye 

 a large white fpot : neck rufty brown : fcapulars and upper tail 

 coverts black : breaft fhaded with black : belly white ; in young 

 birds black. 

 Piace. This frequents Hudfon's Bay in fummer, where it breeds. The 



neft compofed of grafs : the eggs from four to fix in number, 



2 and. 



