544- DUCK. 



neck, pale cream-colour, tranfverfely fpotted round the lower 

 part of the neck with dufky and ferruginous : back and wing 

 coverts deep dufky afh-colour : lower part of the back and rump 

 pale rufous afh-colour : fpeculum of the wings- fine blue, bound- 

 ed below with white * : quills and tail black ; the laft pointed in 

 fhape, and longer than the wings. 

 Plash. Inhabits Staaten Land. From the drawings of Sir Jofeph Banks. 



g 2j Anas rufina, Pall. Trav. ii. p. 713. N° 28. 



RED-CRESTED Le Canard fiffleur huppe, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 398. zz.—Buf. Oif. ix. 182. 



D « —PI. Enh 928. 



Anas capite ruffo major, Rail Syn. p. 140. 2. 

 The great Red-headed Duck, Will. Orn. p. 364. 

 Barbary Shoveler, Siazv's Trav. p. 254 ? 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. \^y EIGHT three pounds or more: length two feet. Bill 

 the colour of cinnabar : irides brown : upper part of the 

 head and neck deep teftaceous red : crown pale rufous; the fea- 

 thers of it thick fet, Handing up, and forming a pretty large 

 globular creft : body in general black, but the under parts 

 inclined to dufky : beginning of the back, between the wings, 

 grey brown : baftard wing paler ; at the bafe of it a tranfverfe 

 lunated white mark : wings blackifh brown : fpeculum white, 

 furrounded with black; under parts of them, and margins, 

 white : tail fhort, brown ; the margins of the feathers whitifh : 

 legs brown, reddifh on the fore part. 



* In the draught there was fome appearance of a protuberance on the joint 

 of the wing.; but as nothing was mentioned in the manufcript about it, the cir- 

 cumftance muft remain uncertain. 



The 



