DUCK. 507 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill two inches, turning up a little 52. 



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at the end ; colour a fine deep cnmion : lndes red : plumage ED D 



on the upper parts dufky brown, paleft on the forehead : the fea- Description. 



thers on the back very pale on the margins : the chin, fides of 



the head beneath the eye, and the reft of the under parts, white : 



but the fides of the breaft are irregularly fpotted with brown : 



over the thighs tranfverfely marked with fine lines of brown : 



on the wing a tranfverfc narrow bar of white; below it another 



of bufF-colour : tail dufky black : legs the fame. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. Place. 



Anas Bahamenfis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 199. 17. 53. 



Le Canard de Bahama, Brif. Qrn. vi. p. 358. 12. ILATHERA D. 



Le Marec, Buf. Qif. ix. p. 256. 



Mareca prima Marcgraiiii, Raii Syn. p. 149. 4. 



The firft Mareca of Marcgrave, Will. Orn. p. 379- § II. 



Ilathera Duck, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 93 — Ar&. Zeol. N° 495. 



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I Z E of the Common Duck : length feventeen inches. Bill lead- Description. 

 colour, marked on each fide near the bafe with a triangular 

 orange fpot : the top of the head rufous grey ; that of the neck, 

 back, fcapulars, and rump, rufous brown : cheeks, throat, 

 and fore part of the neck, white : breaft, belly, and thighs, 

 rufous grey, fpotted with black : under tail coverts plain : 

 lefler wing coverts dufky ; the greater green, with black tips : 

 fecond quills of a dull yellow; prime ones dufky: legs lead- 

 colour. 



This inhabits Brafil, and is alfo met with in the Bahama Place. 



3 T 2 IJlands, 



