DUCK, 



belly grey brown, mixed with white : lower belly, thighs, and 

 under tail -coverts, pale rufous, mixed with grey brown : the 

 wing coverts of this laft colour, mixed with white j and fome of 

 the greater ones wholly white : quills brown ; fix of the middle 

 ones white half way from the bafe, or in fome to two-thirds of 

 their length, forming a fpot of the fame on the wing : tail 

 dufky, cuneiform, the feathers pointed at the ends ; fhafts black : 

 legs brown. 

 Inhabits St. Domingo and Guadeloupe. , 



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Place. 



La Sarcelle a queue epineufe, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 282. — PL Enl. q6j. 



T EN GT-H eleven or twelve inches. Bill blue: top of the 

 head black : through the eye a ftreak of black ; beneath it 

 a fecond of the fame ; between thefe white : general colour of 

 the reft of the plumage dufky brown, with a mixture of darker 

 brown ; paler beneath -, the chin paleft : wings like the reft of the 

 body, mixed with a lmall portion of white on the outer coverts : 

 tail as the wings, fhort j but each feather has the end unwebbed, 

 being prolonged into a fharp point : legs yellowifh flelh-colour. 

 Inhabits Cayenne and Guiana. 



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SPINOUS-TAIL. 



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Description. 



Placi 



La Sarcelle d'Egypte, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 273. — PL Enl. icoo. 



■A TRIFLE larger than the Garganey, and the bill longer and 



bigger : length fixteen inches. The head, neck, bread, and 



belly, deep rufous brown, but bright: on the lower part of the 



; breaft a patch of white : the reft of the plumage black above : 



acrofs the wing a bar of white. 



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 AFRICAN T. 



DESCRIPTIONi 



