Class IL 



MALLARD. 



59 1 



Les Canards et Ies Canes. 



Belcn a-~v. 160. 

 Anas fera torquata minor. 

 Anas domeftica. Gefncr a<v. 



1.13, 96. 

 ^r. 0*/. III. Z$, 85. 

 Common wild Duck and 



Mallard. Common tame 



Duck. Wil. cm. 371,380. 

 Raii jyn. a<v. 1 45, 150. 

 Le Canard domeflique, le 



Canard fauvage. Brijfon 



a<u. VI 308, 318. 

 Sinheimifche ent. Stock ent. 



Kram, 341. 



Anitra, Anitra falvatica, Ci- 



fone. Zinan. 105, 106. 

 Anas bofchas. Anas domef- 



tica. Lin. fyfi. 205. 

 Gras-and , Blanacke. Faun, 



Suec. fp. 131. 

 Fera, Nor%<egis Blaaehals v. 



Gnes-And, aliis Stok-And. 



Danis Vild-And. Brun- 



rJch, 87. 

 Domeftica, Danis Tam-And. 



ibid. 88. 

 Wilde Ente. Frifch, II. 158. 



faemina. 159. 

 Br. Zool. 155. 

 Ratza. Scopoli, No. 77. 



279. Mal. 



LARD. 



THE mallard ufually weighs two pounds and D 

 an half: the length is twenty-three inches; 

 the breadth thirty-five : the bill is of a yellowifh 

 green : the head and neck are of a deep and fhining 

 green : more than half round the lower part of the 

 neck is an incomplete circle of white : the upper 

 part of the bread is of a purplifh red; and the be- 

 ginning of the back of the fame color : the bread 

 and belly of a pale grey 3 marked with tranfverfe 

 fpeckled lines of a dufky hue. 



The fcapulars white, elegantly barred with 

 brown: the fpot on the wing is of a rich purple: 

 the tail confifts of twenty-four feathers. What dif- 

 tinguifhes the male of this fpecies from all others 

 are the four middle feathers, which are black and 



ftrcngly 



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