DUCK. 499 



inclining to rufous : greater coverts alh-colour : quills black, 

 but moft of them have the bafe white, making an oblique bar 

 of the fame on the wing : lower part of the back, the rump 

 and tail, belly, and under the wings, black : under tail coverts 

 mottled black and white : legs yellow : claws black : hind toe 

 pretty long. 



Inhabits the Wefi Indies. I have alfo feen a fpecimen which Place,' 



came from Cayenne. Has been brought into England alive. 



Anas arborea, Lin. SjJ{. I. p. 207. 44. 48. 



Le Canard fiffleur de la Jamaique, Brif. Orit. vi. p. 403. zi.—Pl.Enl. BLACK-BILLED 



J * r WHISTLING D. 



804. 



Le Siffleur a bee Noir, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 185. 



Black-billed Whittling Duck, Edw. pi. 193. — Rail Syr:, p. 192. 12 



Shane J 'am. p. 324. t. 272, — Brown. Jam. p. 480. — Arii. Zool. N° 



492. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



'HIS is lefs than the Mallard, and ftands pretty high on Description. 

 its legs : the neck is alfo long and (lender. The bill is 

 black : irides hazel : crown of the head dufky, fomewhat crefted 

 at the back part, and of a rufous brown : hind part of the neck 

 brown : back and fcapulars the fame, but the feathers margined 

 with rufous : rump and upper tail coverts darker : fides of the 

 head and throat white : fore part of the neck white, fpotted 

 with black : the bread pale rufous, fpotted alfo with black : the 

 belly, thighs, and vent much like the fore part of the neck, but 

 the fpots are fmaller, and moft numerous on the fides : the wing 

 coverts rufous, fpotted with black : quills and tail dufky : legs 

 lead-colour : claws black. 



2 S 2 Inhabits 



