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Inhabits Jamaica, where it is remarked for its making & 

 ivhifiling kind of noife ; and is faid to build in trees. In fome 

 feafons migrates into Guiana. Is thought to be very good food.. 

 I received one of thefe from the firft-named place,and kept it for 

 fome time in my garden; but it was wild in the higheft degree^ 

 and would by no means become familiar. Is fuppofed to fre- 

 quent Carolina in winter, at leaft one, like it in name, is faid to 

 be found on thofe coafts by Law/on * and Catejby f. It is cer- 

 tainly not the other fex of the laft fpecies. One of thefe, in the 

 Britijb Mujeum, had the title of Opano Duck j which name, we are 

 informed, it bears at Guiana, 



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Description. 



Anas marila, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 196. 8. — Faun. Suee. N° ill. — Phil. TranjZ 

 lxii. p. 413. — Brun. N° 50, 51. — Mailer, N° III. — Fri/cb. t. 193.— — 

 Georgi Reife, p. 166. 



Anas fubterranea, Scop. Ann. i. N° 83 ? 



Le petit Morillon raye, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 416. 26. A. 



Scaup Duck, Raii Syn. p. 142. A. 6. — Will. Orn. p. 365.—^. Zool.ih. 

 N° 27;. pi. \oo.—ArB. Zool. N° 498. 

 Lev. Muf. 



'TpHE length of this fpecies is eighteen inches: breadth 

 twenty-nine : weight one pound feven ounces. The bill is. 

 two inches long, and broadeft at the end; of a lead-colour, paleft 

 at the bafe ; nail black : irides of a fine gold-colour : the head 

 full of feathers ; that and the neck black, gloried with green : 

 the lower part of the latter, and bread, black: the back and fcapu- 

 lars are pale grey, finely undulated with numerous tranfverfe lines 

 of black : lower part of the back, rump, and vent, black : the wing 



Hift. Carol. 149. 



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