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50. 



Var. A. 



Description. 



Place and 

 Manners. 



ENGTH fourteen inches: breadth twenty-two inches: weight 

 fourteen ounces. The bill is one inch long, narrow, black : 

 irides blue : the forehead and crown gloffy black, the feathers 

 longifh : on the ears fpotted with dirty white : back part of the 

 neck brown : fcapulars and lefTer wing coverts dark blue j the 

 greater blue, with a white fpot at the ends : greater quills deep 

 blue : fecondaries white without, and deep blue within : throat 

 and belly white: breaft and vent blue : tail black : legs blue. 



The above comes into Hudfon's Bay in June, and departs in 

 Oftober. Lays ten fmall white eggs, on thtjlumps cf trees, near 

 ponds i makes no neft, only forming a hollow out of the rotten 

 wood ; hatches in July; the young are conveyed by the mother, 

 from the fhell to the water, in her bill. Feeds on grafs at the 

 bottoms of ponds ; and frequently flies juft over the furface. 

 Known by the name oiWaw pew ne way fe pis, or Pied Duck^*. 



51. 

 «-SHIELDRAKE, 



Description. 



Anas tadorna, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 195. 4. — Faun. Suec N° 113. — Brun. N° 47, 



—Muller,N° 107. — Frifch.fl. 166. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 165. 

 La Tadorne, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 344. 9. pi. 33. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. ix. p. 205. 



pi. 14. — Pi. Enl. 53. 

 Sheldrake, or Burrough Duck, Rati Syn. p. 140. A. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 363. 



pi. 70. 71. — Albin. i. pi. 94. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 278. — Artt. Zoo!, 



p. J72. D. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of the Wild Duck: length two feet : weight two pounds 

 two ounces. The bill turns up much at the end, is pretty 



• Mr. Hutchins. 



broad, 



