DUCK. 54/ 



The female is fmaller. The feathers round the bafe of the Femaib. 

 ■bill white : round the eye the fame, paffing backwards in a ftreak 

 behind, where it finiihes in a point: chin and throat white : fore 

 part of the neck and breaft brown, marked with triangular fpots 

 of white, as in the male, but much lefs diftinct : the back and 

 tail brown : wings the fame, mixed with blue green on the 

 coverts and fecond quills : acrofs the wing, juft above the 

 quills, a narrow white bar : quills dufky, edged near the ends 

 with grey, and within with green : belly white : legs as in the 

 wale. 



This moil beautiful fpecies inhabits Mexko, and fome of the Place and 

 Weft India ifles, migrating in the fummer feafon as far north as 

 40 degrees, or a little beyond. Appears at New York early in 

 the ipring, and breeds there : makes the neft in the decayed 

 hollows of trees, or fuch as have been made by Wood-peckers, 

 and often between the forks of the branches ; whence by fome 

 called Slimmer Duck, and Tree Duck. When the young are 

 hatched, the Duck takes them on her back to the water. Are 

 often kept tame in our menageries, and will breed there. The 

 flefli is much efteemed by the Americans. This is the fpecies, 

 the neck of which the natives of Louifiana ufe to ornament their 

 pipes, or calumets of peace * with ; and at the laft-named place is 

 found throughout the year. 



* Hift. th la Louif. ii. p. 1 15.— See alfo vol. i. p. 37. Note *, of this Work. 



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