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Anas Glauclon, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 201. 26.— Faun. Suee. N° 123.=— S«/. Ann.l. 



N° 72. — Mulkr, N° 120. 

 LeMorillon, Sri/. Orn. vi. p. 406. 25. pi. 26. I. 2. 

 Grey-headed Duck, i?/-. Zool. ed. 2. vol. ii. p. 470. 

 Glaucium, or Morillon of Belon, Raii Syn. p. 144. — Will. Orn. p. 368.—= 



Br. Zool. ii. N° 277. — Artt. Zool. p. 573. F. 

 Lev. Muf. 



T) RIS S OiV defcribes this as being rather lefs than the Golden- 

 J-* eye: length near fifteen inches. Bill lead-colour: irides of 

 a golden yellow: thehead is fomewhat crefted : that, and mod 

 part of the neck, black, gloffed with violet ; the lower part of the 

 neck, rufous brown : the back, fcapulars, and rump, gloffy black- 

 ifh brown, with a flight tinge of violet : breaft feathers brown, 

 deeply edged with white : belly white ; near the vent mixed with 

 brown : wing coverts blackifh brown ; moft of the inner ones 

 have a caft of green : the ten firft quills are blackifll brown -, 

 of thefe from the fourth to the tenth are marked with grey, more 

 or lefs, in the middle, on the outer web, near the fhaft ; the 

 eleventh and twelfth pale grey, with brown tips ; the eight fol- 

 lowing white, tinged as the laft ; the inner of thefe brown on 

 the inner web j the fix next the body dark brown, and the 

 outer one of thefe has a white fpot on the outer web : tail violet 

 brown : legs lead-colour : claws black. 



The female has the head and neck brown, mixed before with 

 dufky : back and fcapulars bright brown, dotted with minute 

 grey points: lower part of the back and rump dark greenifh 

 brown : fides grey brown : under tail coverts white, with black 

 bands : in other things like the male, except that the laft has a 



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MORILLON D. 



Description. 



Female. 



