$02 DUCK. 



In Carniola, on the lake Zirchnichew, where It makes the neft in 

 fubterraneous hollows in the banks.; and this author obferves, that 

 they are often killed in vaft numbers by the countrymen with 

 clubs ■, being driven out of their holes in the full funfhine, in 

 the middle of the day, which blinds them fo as to prevent their 

 being able either to refill or fly away. 



49° Xe Millouinan, Buf. Oif. Ix. p. zzi, — PL EnL 1002. 



Var. A. 



Description. OIZE of the laft : length twenty-one inches. Bill blueilh black : 

 head, neck, and breaft, black, bronzed with green, verging 

 to copper about the eyes : lower part of the breaft and belly 

 white : back, fcapulars, lefTer wing coverts, and between the legs, 

 ftriated with fine tranfverfe lines of black and dufky white : lower 

 part of the back, vent, and tail, black : greater wing coverts 

 half black, half white : fecond quills much the fame : prime 

 quills dufky : legs black. 

 Place. This was killed in France, on the coafts of Picardy. Buffon 



alfo mentions a fecond, which he received from Loitifiana, but ra- 

 ther fmaller. It appears by the figure to be merely a variety of 

 the Scaup Duck. 



r . Anas difcors, Lin. Syft. i. p. 205. 37. 



WHITE-FACED La Sarcelle d'Amerique, Brif. On,, vi. p. 452. 35 



Soucrourou, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 279. — PL EnL 966. (the male). 



D. 



The Male. White-faced Teal, Catijb. Car. i. pi. 100.— Brown Jam. p. 481.— .A-tf, 



Zool. N° 503. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE between a Teal and a Wigeon: length fifteen inches and 



a quarter. Bill black : crown the fame : bafe of the bill 



1 furrounded 



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