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and in March the young are feen running about. They lay many 

 eggs ; fometimes thefe are hatched under Hens, in which cafe 

 they are, while young, familiar, though when grown up ex- 

 ceedingly quarrelfome with other Ducks: as they have been 

 known to breed of themfelves when kept to maturity, it is a 

 thing much to be wifhed for, that thefe birds might be domef- 

 ticated, as their flefh is moft excellent, efpecially fuch as are 

 brought up tame. They appear upon the coafts of Hud/on' 's Bay 

 in May, as foon as the thaws come on, chiefly in pairs : lay 

 there only from fix to eight eggs j and feed on flies and worms in 

 the fwamps : depart in flocks in autumn. Known by the name 

 of Atheikimo AJheep *. 



66. 



Anas glocitans, Ail. Stock, vol. xl. p. 33. pi. 1. 



Bimaculated Duck, Br. Zool. ii. N° 287. — Aril. Zool. p. 575. BIMACULATED 



D. 

 EN GTH twenty inches. Bill deep lead-colour; nail black : Description. 

 irides brown : crown brown, changeable with green, ending 

 in a ftreak of brown at the hind part of the head, with a fmall 

 creft : between the bill and eye, and behind each ear, ferrugi- 

 nous fpots, the firft round, the laft oblong and large : throat of 

 a fine deep purple : the reft of the head bright green, continued 

 in ftreaks down the neck : bread a light ferruginous brown, 

 fpotted with black : hind part of the neck and back dark brown, 

 waved with black : wing coverts aih-coloured ; lower coverts 

 ftreaked with ruft-colour : fcapulars cinereous : quills the fame, 

 inclined to brown : fecondaries fine green, ending in a fhade of 



* Mr. Hutcbins. 



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