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black, fome of the inner ones marked with white on the inner 

 webs : tail cinereous, the three outer feathers edged outwardly 

 with white, the fhape of it cuniform : legs orange : claws black. 



Female. Anas juftica, Lh:. Syfl. i. p. 201. 24. 



La Sarcelle de la Caroline, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 464. 39. — Buf. OiJ. ix. p. 286. 

 Little brown Duck, Calejb. Car. i. pi. 98. 



Description. CMALLER than the la ft : length fourteen inches : weight 

 one pound. Bill black: irides hazel: the head and upper 

 parts deep brown : behind the eye an oval 'white fpot : throat and 

 under parts pale grey : greater quills deep brown ; the leffer ones 

 the fame, but outwardly edged with white, forming a patch on 

 the wing : tail brown : legs black. 

 Place and Thefe inhabit America, and are found at New Tork in the 



winter, migrating alfo as far as Carolina ■, return Jouth in fummer 

 to breed. Come into Hudfon's Bay, about Severn River, in 

 June, and make the neft in trees, in the woods, near ponds. 

 Dive often, and rife again at a great diftance j hence called 

 by fome the Spirit Duck *. 



The Buffel-headed and Spirit Duck of authors can be no other 

 than one and the fame fpecies, as they differ only in the fulnefs of 

 plumage about the head ; every other chara&er agrees minutely. 

 That of Catejly was drawn from nature, and is fuch as I have 

 feen various fpecimens of in cabinets, as well as in my own pof- 

 feffion* except that in the Britijh Mufeum, in which the head is 

 fmooth, and fimilar to that from which Edwards made his figure. 

 As thefe birds are not fcarce, I have compared them again and 



Manners. 



* This is <faid of the male . — Edwards. 



again, 



