54* DUCK. 



g-j. Anas fponfa, Lin. Syft. \. p. 207. 43. 



SUMMER D. Le Canard d'Ete, Sri/. Qrn. vi. p. 351. n. pi. 32. fig. 2* 



Le beau Canard huppe, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 245. — PI. Enl. 980. 98 1«- 

 Yztaflzon Yayauhqui *, Raii Syn. p. 176. — Will. Qrn. p. 387. 

 American Wood Duck, Brown Jam. p. 481. 



Summer Duck, Calejb. Car. i. pi. 97. — Edw. pi. iou — Aril. Zocl. N° 493V 

 Br. Muf. Lwi. Muf. 



DSSCRIETIOK. 



CIZE of zWigeon: length nineteen inches. Bill red, neareffc 

 the bafe of the upper mandible yellow ; tip and ridge black : 

 aides hazel : eyelids crimfon : the hind head much crefted j the 

 feathers very long, and hang down the neck : the head and. 

 creft are gloffy green,, appearing purple in fome lights : from the 

 noftrils a white line paffea on each fide over the eye to the hind 

 head ; and from the back part of the eye a fecond, tending to 

 the fame part : hind head, beneath the creft, black : the chin 

 and throat are white, which forms a flender curve upwards 

 round the jaw, ending in a point at the back of the eye* be- 

 low this is a fecond curve, tending towards the nape : the 

 neck, below the creft, and breaft, are of a ruddy vinaceous 

 colour, inclining to brown behind; the breaft marked with 

 triangular fpots of white; from thence, as far as the vent, 

 white : the feathers which fall over the wings barred black and 

 white; back gloffy brown*, fcapulars gloffed with blue green;, 

 fecond aries with- blue: fides of the body finely barred with duiky 

 and cream-colour: the feathers over the thighs- croffed with black 

 and white at the ends : fides of the vent purplifh chefnut : legs 



orange. 



* The bird with, a various-coloured head* 



The 



