493 DUCK. 



edged with black, and curve downwards over the wings r back 

 and tail brown : fecondaries white : greater quills dufky : on the 

 bread a band of black : belly brown like the back, but paler i: 

 legs yellow : webs brown. 



Female. The female has the bill like the male: the plumage on the 



upper parts dirty mottled brown : on the wing a fpot of white* 

 arifing from the tips of the fecond quills being of that colour : 

 under parts of the body dirty white: legs black. 



Place. Inhabits the coaft of Labrador; from whence a pair in the 



collection of Sir Jofeph Banks came. That defcribed in the 

 Arctic Zoology was fent from Connecticut in New England. Mr. 

 Pennant fuppofes this fpecies to be the fame with the pretty Pied 

 Ducks, which whittled as they flew, or as they fed, met with by 

 Law/on * in flocks, in the weflern branch of Cape Fear inlet. 



47- Ana* autumnalis, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 20?. to: 



URD BITTED . . 



WHKTr ING D ^ e Canard fiffleur d'Amerique, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 400. 23.pl. 38. 1.. 



Le Siffleur a bee rouge & narines jaunes, Euf. Oif. ix. 183. — Pi. Enl. 826.. 



Red-billed whittling Duck, Ed-iu. pi. 194. 



Lev. Mujl 



CIZE of a Wigeon: length twenty-one inches. Bill. two inches 

 long, red, nail black : hides hazel : crown of the head chef- 

 nut : nape ftreaked with chefnut : fides of the head and throat 

 dirty white: lower part of the neck rufous chefnut : the breaft 

 and between the fhoulders yellow afh-colour, but paleft on the 

 bread; all the feathers of the lad have yellowifh margins: 

 back, and fcapulars chefnut: inner wing coverts afh-coloun,. 



* tiifi. Carol p. 148. 



inclining 



Description. 



