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black ; down the middle, and acrofs the tip, orange : irides red : 

 the fore part and fides of the head are of a reddifh grey : on 

 each fide of the neck, juft below the head, is an oval fpot of 

 black : the hind part of the head, the throat, and remaining 

 part of the neck and breaft, white : back and rump black : fides 

 of the upper tail coverts white, the middle black : lower part 

 of the breaft, and upper part of the belly, dufky, paffing up- 

 wards, on each fide of the breaft, to the back : the lower belly and 

 vent white : the fcapulars are alfo white, and are long, and 

 pointed at the ends : the wings chiefly black, with a mixture 

 of chefnut : the four middle tail feathers are black, the others 

 white; the two middle ones are narrow, and exceed the others 

 by three inches and a half: legs of a dull red : claws black. 



This fpecies varies ; in fome birds the plumage is more or lefs 

 of a brown or chocolate colour, where in others it is black ;- and 

 the fpot on each fide of the neck occupies half of it : the two 

 middle tail feathers are frequently as long as the reft of the 

 bird : the legs alfo have all the different fhades of red in dif- 

 ferent birds. The bill however is one conftant mark, though it 

 is broadeft in the younger birds *. 



Anas hyemalis, Lin. SjJ}. i. p. 202. 29. — Faun. Groenl. N° 45. 

 Le Canard a longue queue d'lilande, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 379. 17. 

 Sharp-tailed Duck, called Ha'velda, Will. Orn. p. 364. § 5. 

 Long-tailed Duck, Ed<w. pi. 156. 



ILL as the laft defcribed : fides of the head white; hind 

 head cinereous j the reft of the head, the neck, breaft, and 



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* Pall. Spic. v. p. 28. Note (a). 



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