D U 



K. 



ilirrounded with black : between the bill and eye a white ftripe 7 

 ending on each fide the chin : the reft of the head and neck 

 gloffy green, changing to- violet : back brown, tranfverfely waved 

 with irregular lines of grey : the lower part of the neck before, 

 breaft, and belly, pale rufous, marked with dufky fpots : vent 

 black : wing coverts blue; below them a white band : fpeculum 



green 



quills and tail brown : legs yellow* 



5°3 



Anas difcors, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 205. 37. fi. 



La Sarcelle de Virginie, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 455. 36; 



— — Soucrourette, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 280. 



■ de Cayenne, PI. E11I. 403. 



Blue-winged Teal, Cateji. Car. i. pi. 99. 

 Lev. Muf. 



^T* H E female is rather lefs than the male. 



head and neck brown, mixed with pale grey 



Bill the fame: the 

 back deeper 



brawn, the feathers margined with yellowifh buff-colour: breaft 

 and fides the fame, but paler : belly and vent pale yellowifh 

 brown: the fcapulars are dufky black: the wing coverts pale 

 blue; fpeculum green ; between them a narrow bar of white: 

 quills and tail dufky : legs dufky yellow. 



Thefe birds inhabit the American continent*; but not farther 

 north than New York. Catejby obferves, that they come into 

 Carolina in Augufi, and feed on the rice, remaining there till 

 Ocloher ; and, when the rice fails, attack the wild oats ■, and fre- 

 quent the ponds and frefh waters. The fiefh is reckoned deli- 

 cious, being for the moft part very fat. Found alfo at Guiana, 

 and Cayenne. 



* The American Shell-Drake and Blue-iving exceed all of the Duck kind what~ 

 foever;. and thefe are in prodigious numbers.— Burn. Trav. p. 16. 



LENGTH 



50. 



•*- WHITE- 

 FACED D. 



The Female. 



Description, 



Place and 

 Manners. 



