Cuass ll, MORILLON DUCK. 
the primaries black; the secondaries white ; the 
breast and belly white; the tail dusky; the sides 
above the thighs black; the legs yellow. ‘ 
This was bought in the London market. 1 
am. doubtful of the sex. 
Mr. Cockfield, of Stratford in Essex, favored 
me with an account of two birds of this descrip- 
tion, shot near the same time: both agreed in 
colors; but one weighed twenty-six ounces, 
the other only nineteen.* 
* Most modern naturalists have concurred in considering the 
Morillon merely as the young of the Golden Eye, and the fact is 
proved incontrovertibly by Dr. Latham, in his admirable treatise 
on the Zrachee of birds in the fourth volume of the Linnean 
Transactions, p.119. It appears, however, that the same name 
is given occasionally to the young of the Scaup, of the Tufted. 
Duck, and probably of other species, in the immature state of 
their plumage. Eb. 
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