DUCK. 4 97 



the wing : tail as in the 'Mallard, with the two recurved feathers 

 in the middle. 



The above was defcribed from a fpecimen in the late Mufeum 

 of M. Vroeg, now difperfed, and in the Prince of Orange's Mufeum. 

 The author fbppofes it not to be a variety of the Mallard with 

 the hooked bill, but a diftincT: fpecies. 



EARLY the fize of a Mallard: length twenty-one inches. 45. 



Bill two inches and a half in length, of a lead-colour, with SUPER ^IOUS 



Descp 



a black tip : general colour of the plumage cinereous brown, the 

 edges of the feathers very pale : over the eye a ftreak of white j 

 beneath it a fecond, broader than the firft : chin and fore part of 

 the neck dufky white : fpeculum of the wings blueifh green, in- 

 clofed in a line of black : legs dufky afh-colour. 



This inhabits New Zealand. Found both in Charlotte Sound Place. 



and Dufky Bay. Known there by the name of He-turrera. From 

 the drawings of Sir Jofeph Banks. 



Pied Duck, ArB. Zool. N° 488. g> 



pied'd. 



SIZE of the Wild Buck: length nineteen inches. Bill two r> „ , „„ 

 Description. 



inches and a quarter; the bafe of it, and round the noftrils, 

 for about one-third, orange ; the under mandible dufky : head and 

 neck rufous white, the feathers of the crown rifing in a narrow 

 ridge, along the top of which runs a narrow ftripe of black to 

 the nape : round the middle of the neck a collar of black, 

 which paries down the middle, at the back part of the neck, quite 

 to the back: the fcapulars are white; fome of the inner ones 

 Vol. III. 3 S edged. 



