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coverts are finely undulated with alternate lines of dufky and white, 

 ib minute as to appear at a diftance as powdered with thefe two 

 colours : the ten prime quills greyifh afh-colour j the four outer 

 ones are dufky black on the outer webs ; the other fix greyifii 

 white, but the ends of all are black : from the eleventh to the 

 twentieth, white, with dufky ends, forming a broad bar of white 

 on the wing ; the five next the body dufky, which is likewife the 

 colour of the tail : the under parts of the body, from the breaft, 

 are white, powdered with dufky between the legs and fides over 

 the thighs : the legs are pale lead-colour : webs and claws black. 

 Thefe birds are faid to vary in colour, efpecially about the head 

 and neck*. 



The female weighs more by two ounces than the male\, and Female, 



has the irides of a dirty yellow. 



This inhabits Iceland, as it does the more northern parts of Place and 

 the continent of Europe, Lapland, Sweden, Norway, and Rujfla. 

 Common on the northern fhores of Sihiria.. Very frequent on the 

 river Ob. Breeds in the north, and migrates fouthward in win- 

 ter. Inhabits America, as high as Hudfon's Bay ; comes there in 

 May, and retires in Otlober. Found in England, in the winter feafon, 

 in fmall flocks. We have received it from the coaft of Suffolk. Is 

 faid to feed on broken Jhell-fijh, called Scaup, whence the name J. 



If the fame as Scopoli'% |1 bird, above quoted, is very common 



* " Efpecially in the head and neck, fo that among a pack of forty or fifty 

 you (hall not find two exaftly alike."— Willughly. 



f Ara. Zool. % Willughby. 



U His bird is lefs than the Mallard. Bill brown: plumage above, brown; 

 beneath white : tail white, tipped with brown: quills white on the infide : legs 

 brown. He compares it to the Scaup Duck, yet fays it is not abfolutely the fame 

 bird. 



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