DUCK. 485 



on the nail at the end of the bill, diverging like the letter V, 

 the angle towards the tip *. 



Anas minuta, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 204. 36. — Bruit. N* 86. — Faun. Groenl. 38. 



N o +6 . HARLEQUIN D. 



La Sarcelle de la Baye de Hudfon, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 469. 41. The Female. 



Le Canard brun, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 252. — PI. Enl. 1007. 



'■ brun & blanche, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 287. — PL Enl. 799. 



Little Brown and White Duck, Ediv. pi. 157. — Catefi. Car. i. pi. 98. 



Lev. Mu/. 



T ENGTH thirteen inches and a half. Bill black: hides Description. 



hazel: the forehead, and between the bill and eye, white: 

 on the ear a fpot of the fame : head, neck, and back, brown ; 

 paleft on the fore part of the neck : upper part of the breaft and 

 rump rufous brown: lower part of the breaft and belly barred 

 with pale rufous and white, but the lower belly and thighs 

 with rufous and brown : fcapulars and wing coverts rufous 

 brown j the outer greater ones blackifh.: quills and tail dufky, 

 the laft inclined to rufous : legs dufky. 



The two laft defcribed are male and female, and are found both Place and 

 on the old and new continents : on the firft, feen as far fouth as 

 the Lake Baikal, and from thence to Kamtfchatka, particularly 

 up the river Ochotjka ; alfo in Iceland, and as low as Sondmor f. 

 In America, from Carolina to Newfoundland %, and Hudfon' s Bay ; 

 alfo in Greenland: in the laft, frequents, during fummer, bays 

 and rivers, efpecially near their mouths, but not in great plenty, 

 and is a very noify fpecies. It is fond of lhady places, and. 



Manners. 



* Brunnich. f Ar£l. Zool. 



I, The filhermen at this place call it the Lord. — Ediu. 



makes:- 



