DUCK. 489 



Anas bofchas, Lin. Syft\ i. p. 205. 40.— Faun. Susc. N° l$\.—Phil. Tranf. 43- 



]xii. p. vg.—Scop. Ann. i. N° 77 .—Brun. N° 87.— Muller, N" 128.— *" MALLARD. 



Kram. El. p. 341. 11. — Fri/cb. pi. 158. 159. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 166. — 



Faun. Groenl. N" 47. — Faun. Arab. p. 3. N° 9. 

 Le Canard fauvage, 5r//; Om. vi. p. 318. 4. — Buf. Oif. ix. p. 115. pi. 7, 8, 



— PI. Enl. 776. 777. — Ferm. Sarin, ii. p. 156. 

 Wild Duck, Rati Sjn. p. 145. A. 1. 150. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 308. pi. 72. 75. 



— Albin,\\.^\. 10. (male) 1. pi. 99. (female). — Br. Zoo!, ii. p. 279. 



pi. Cjj.—Arfl. Zool. N° 494. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



fpHIS fpecies is well known, both in its wild and domefticated Description. 



ftates : fuffice it to fay, that the former is near two feet in 

 length: the weight two pounds and a half*. The bill of a 

 greenifh yellow : head and neck glofly changeable green : at the 

 lower part of the neck a collar of white, paffing aimed round tha 

 neck: the fcapulars white, barred or rather undulated with 

 minute lines of brown : the back is brown : and the rump black, 

 glolTed with green: on the wing coverts is a tranfverfe white 

 ftreak, edged with a fecond of black 5 and below this the fpecn- 

 lum, or large violet-green lucid fpot : the lower part of the neck 

 and bread are chefnut: the belly pale grey, crofled with nu- 

 merous tranfverfe dufky lines : the tail confifts of twenty fear 

 thers, and is pointed in fhape ; the two middle ones are of a 

 greenifh black, and curve upwards in a remarkable manner; the 

 others as ufual, and of a grey brown, margined with white : legs 



• This is the ufual weight; but feveral Mallards were taken in Chilksford 

 decoy, in Suffolk, in the year 1781, whofe weight was three pounds and a half. 



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