522 DUCK. 



black, edged with white : tail coverts deep changeable green : 

 twelve feathers in the tail ; the two middlemoft black, the others 

 brown,"edged with white : belly dufky, finely granulated : legs 

 fmall, yellow : webs dufky. 

 Place. Taken in a decoy in England. Has beea alfo met with along 



the Lena, and about the lake Baikal. Has a fingular note, fome- 

 what like clucking*. 



67. Blue Grey Duck, with a foft bill, Cook's Voy. i. p. 72. 97.— /V/?. Voy \. 



SOFT-BILLED D. p . i S7 . 



Description. CIZE of a Wigeon : length eighteen inches. Bill an inch and 

 a quarter long, of a pale afh-colour ; the end of it foft, mem- 

 branaceous, and black : the top of the head greenilh afh-colour : 

 body in general pale blueifh lead-colour : acrofs the wing a fpot 

 of white : on the breaft a mixture of ferruginous : legs dufky 

 lead-colour. 

 Place and This inhabits New Zealand; was met with in Dufky Bay, in 



April. It is fingular on account of the end of the bill being fo 

 flexible and foft. It may be fuppofed to live by fuftion, fearch- 

 ing out the worms, &c. in the mud, when the tide retires from 

 the beaches. Is faid to whifile like the IVhiJlling Duck. Is called 

 in New Zealand, He-weego. 



Manners. 



* ArS. Zool. p. 575. 



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