532 D U C K. 



74, Anas Stelleri, Pallas Spic. vi. p. 35. t. J. 



WEST ERN D. Weltern Duck, ArB. Zool. N° 497. pi. 23. 



Lev. Mu/. 



Description. CIZE of the IVigeon : length feventeen inches. Bill made not 

 unlike that of the Wigeon; colour black : irides hoary brown -.. 

 the top and fides of the head and neck, and hind part of the laft 

 for halfway, white : acrofs the forehead from eye to eye a pea- 

 green band ; at the nape of the neck a tranfverfe one of the fame 

 colour, but much deeper, at the lower corner of which, on each 

 fide, is a round black fpot the fize of a. pea; at the lower angle 

 of the eye behind, another of the fame colour, but irregular in 

 fhape : the chin, throat, and fore part of the neck, black, com- 

 municating with a collar of the fame which furrounds the neck 

 about the middle ; from the hinder part of this the black paries 

 down over the back, quite to the tail : the bread and fides are 

 pale ferruginous, deepening into chefnut at the middle, growing 

 ftill deeper as it pafifes on towards the vent, where the colour is 

 black: the wing coverts are white; the prime quills dufky 

 black; the fecondaries are fix inches long, and curve downwards, 

 partly white, partly black, the colours divided obliquely on each 

 feather : the fcapulars are alfo long, and curve elegantly down- 

 wards over the greater coverts, as in the Garganey ; each of thefe 

 has the web next the body fcarcely broader than the fhaft itfelf, 

 and both of them white ; the other web very broad, and black : 

 tail pointed, brown : legs black. 



The above is defcribed from the fpecimen in the Leverian Mu- 

 feutn. In that mentioned by Pallas, the head is faid to be fome- 



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