$6 S C A V P D U C K. Class II. 



low : but it preferves the other marks of the old 

 duck. In this ftate it has been defcribed in the 

 Qrnith. boreal 91, under the title of anas latiroftra. 



375, Scaup. Bollenten. Gefmf tw. 120. fan av. VI. 416. 



Scaup Duck. Wil. om. 365. Danis Polik Edelmand, Bruit* 



Raiijyn, av» 142. nich, 50, 51. 



Anas marila Lin. fyfl. 196. Schwartz? vviide Elite, Frifcb^ 



Faun. Suec. fp % \\\. II, 193. 



Le petit Morillon raye. Brif- Br. Z00L 153. add. plates. 



Descrip. rT^HIS we defcribed from fome ftuft ikins very 

 -*= well preferved *. It feemed lefs than the com- 

 mon duck. The bill was broad, flat, and of a 

 greyifh blue color : the head and neck black glof- 

 fed with green : the bread black : the back, the 

 coverts of the wings, and the fcapulars finely mark- 

 ed with numerous narrow tranfverfe bars of black 

 and grey : the greater quil feathers are duiky : 

 the lener white, tipt with black : the belly is white: 

 the tail and feathers, both above and below, are 

 black ; the thighs barred with dufky and white 

 ftrokes : the legs dulky. 



Mr. V/illughby acquaints us, that thefe birds 

 take their name from feeding on fcaup, or bro- 

 ken fhell fifh : they differ infinitely in colors -, fo 



* When this happens, we have recourfe to Mr. WHUghby 

 for the weight and meafurenierus, whenever he hath noted 

 d. 



that 



