Si6 T> U C K. 



Ipotted with grey : lower belly, fides, and thighs, barred with' 

 whitifh and grey-brown lines : vent dark : on the wing are three- 

 fpots of different colours, viz. white, black, and red: tail afh- 

 colour, edged with white : legs orange. 

 Female. The female differs in having the colours on the wings duller^ 



though marked the fame as the male : the breaft reddifh brown^ 

 fpotted with black : the feathers on the neck and back edged 

 with pale red ; rump the fame, inftead of black : and thofe ele- 

 gant femicircular lines on the neck and breaft wholly wanting. 

 Place and This inhabits England in the winter months ; and is alfo found- 



at the fame feafon in various parts of France and Italy ; migrates* 

 as far as Sweden as fumrrfer advances, in order to breed ; and 

 found throughout Rujra and Sibiria, except in the eaflern pari: 

 of the laft, and Kamtfchatka. 



It is a very quick diver, fo as to make it difficult to be fhot. 

 Feeds morning and evening only ; being hid among the reeds 

 and rufhes during the day. The noife it makes is not unlike 

 that of the Mallard, but louder. The fiefh is good. 



Manners. 



62. Anas falcaria, Tall. Trav. in. p. 701; 



• FALCATED falcata, Georgi Rei/e, p. 168. 



Falcated Duck, Arc}. Zocl. p. 574. I. pi. 23. 



D. 



Description Q I Z E of a Wige on : length one foot fix inches: weight twenty- 

 five ounces and fix drams. The bill an inch and a half long, 

 and black : the feathers of the back part of the head, and a little 

 way down the neck, long, and crefted : the forehead and crown 

 dull ferruginous ; in the middle, near the bafe of the bill, a fpot 



of white: round the eyes, hind head, and creft, fhining green, 



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varied 



