Manners. 



536 DUCK. 



Female. The female weighs one pound, or more : has the head of a 



deep reddifh brown : neck grey : bread and belly white : wing 

 coverts and ("capillars dufky and afh-colour: middle quill fea- 

 thers white j the reft, and tail, black : legs dufky. 1 

 Place and This fpecies is not unfrequent on our fea-coafts in winter, and 



appears in fmall flocks; but pafTes to the north injuring in order 

 to breed. It inhabits Sweden and Norway during the fummer. 

 Is an excellent diver, and feeds on fmall /hells, Moflly feen in the 

 water, as it is very aukward in walking. Has been attempted to 

 be dcmefticated ; but feems out of its element on land : with 

 difficulty can be brought to eat any thing but bread; and the 

 feet foon grow injured, infomuch as at laft to hinder it walking 

 at any rate. The flefh is much efteemed, and the birds are often 

 feen in the markets at the proper feafon. Found in America, in 

 winter, as low as New York •, in fummer at Hudfon's Bay, where it 

 frequents the frefh-water lakes, and makes a round neft of grafs *, 

 lined with feathers from its bread; lays from feven to ten white 

 eggs. Is called there Mifte ■pe fqua fe wew f. Is alfo an inhabi- 

 tant of Greenland ; but is not there a common bird. 



* In hollow trees. — Faun. Suec. 

 t Mr. Hutchim. 



Anas 



