T H E 



W E S T E R N D U C K. 



Generic Character. 



Hi I I broad and flattened ; the edges marked with 

 fharp lamellae. 



Tongue broad and ciliated at the edges. 



Specific Character, &c. 



VARIEGATED DUCK, with a frontal and oc- 

 cipital band of green ; the fcapular feathers 

 falcated downwards ; the bill and le^s black. 



WESTERN DUCK. 



Lath. Synopf. 3. p. 532. 

 Pennant. Arth Z00L p. 564. 



The beautiful fpecies of Duck here reprefented, is na- 

 med the Weftern Duck from its having been princi- 

 pally found on the weftern coafts of America; but it is 

 likewife an inhabitant of Kamtfchatka, where it breeds 

 amongft inacceffible rocks. It is fiid to fly in flocks, 

 and never to enter the mouths of rivers, but to confine 

 itfelf to the fea-coafts. The elegant fpecimen in the 

 Leverian Mufcum was the individual from which this 

 figure was taken: Mr. Pennant's figure of this bird 

 in the Arctic Zoology was alfo drawn from the fame 

 fpecimen. The fize of this fpecies is nearly that of a 

 Wigeon. 



