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CIZE of the Buff el-headed Buck : length fixteen inches. Bill 

 an inch and three quarters j in ihape very broad, and turns 

 up a little towards the end : general colour of the upper man- 

 dible blue ; but the place of the noftrils, fides, and all the un- 

 der mandible, are orange : the eyes placed high up in the head : 

 irides brown : top of the head, taking in the eyes, black : fides 

 beneath, chin, and throat, white, mixed with blackifh fpots : 

 the upper part of the neck is brown ; the lower part, all round, 

 breaft, and belly, barred dufky and deep ferruginous, inclining 

 to faffron-colour : the lower part of the belly, vent, and rump, 

 barred dufky and dirty rufous white : under tail coverts dirty 

 white : back and fcapulars brown, a little marbled with minute 

 yellowifh dots : wings and tail plain dufky brown, the laft cu- 

 neiform in fhape, and rather long : legs orange. 



This feems fomewhat allied to the laft, but is certainly a dif- 

 ferent fpecies. I received it, among other birds, from Jamaica, 

 where it firft appears in Oclober or November, and flaying till 

 March, retires north with feveral other fpecies. Bancroft, in his 

 hiftory of Guiana *, mentions a Teal fomewhat larger than the 

 common one. The bill broad and black : the feathers of the head 

 whitifh brown: thofe of the neck, back, and wings, grey brown, 

 variegated with fpots and bars of chefnut : breaft and belly dull 

 white. I fu/peil this to be the fame with my bird. He fays that 

 it frequents the rivers, like the Guiana Wild Duck, and at the 

 fame feafona. 



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