ClafsII. SCAUP DUCK. . 459 



X. The SCAUP DUCK. 



Bollenten. Gefner av. 120. Le petit Morillon raye. Brijfon 



Scaup Duck. Wil. orn. 365. a<u. vi. 416. 



Raufyn.a<v. 142. DanisYoWk Edeimand. Brunnich, 



Anas marila. Lin.fyfu\q6. co, 51. 



Faun. Suec.fp. 1 1 1. Br. Zool. 153. add. plates. 



/ ~T- <V HIS we defcribed from fome ftuft fkins very well Defer. 



-*• preferved*. It feemed lefs than the common 

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

 blue color: the head and neck black gloffed with 

 green : the breaft black : the back, the coverts of 

 the wings, and the fcapulars finely marked with nu- 

 merous narrow tranfverfe bars of black and grey : the 

 greater quil feathers are dufky : the leffer 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 dufky. 



Willoughby 'acquaints us 3 that thefe birds take their 

 name from feeding on fcaup, or broken fhell fifh : 



they differ infinitely in colors-, fo that in a flock 

 of forty or fifty there are not two alike. 



* When this happens we have recourfe to Mr. Willoughby for the 

 weight and meafurements, whenever he hath noted them. 



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