DUCK. 495 



Le grand Canard fauvage, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 326. A. .. 



Var. A. 

 ►TPHIS differs from the common one in being larger, and mea- Description. 



Turing two feet fix inches in length, and three feet nine 

 in breadth. It is like the other in plumage, except the back, 

 which is the colour of foot. If we are not miftakeri, this variety 

 is called by fome the Roan Buck. 



Le grand Canard fauvage gris, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 326. B, 43, 



Var. B. 

 CIZE of the laft, but the plumage is afh-coloured, and the bill Description. 

 and legs black. 



Le grand Canard fauvage tachete, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 327. C. 



43- 

 Var. C. 



^pHIS is like the common Mallard; but differs in having the Description-. 

 back black, fpotted with yellow. 



Anas Adunca, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 206. 41. 



Le Canard a bee courbe, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 311. 2. Var. D. 



Hook-billed Duck, Rati Syn. p. 150. 2.— Will. Orn. p. 381. pi. 75.— HOOK-BILLED 

 Albin, ii. pi. 96. 97. — iii. pi. 100. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Y^IS differs not in colour of plumage, make, and fize, from Dbscriptipn.. 



the common Wild Duck ; and is alfo feen in every variety 

 incident to the domefiicated one ; but differs in the bill, which is 

 fomewhat longer, and bent downwards... 



This 



