4 6i MALLARD. Clafs II. 



his attention from the brood •, they will fly along the 

 ground as if wounded, till the former are got into a 

 place of fecurity and then return and collect them 

 together. From this inftinctive cunning, Turner ima- 

 gines them to be the cbenalopex, or fox-goofe of the 

 antients. They lay fifteen or fixteen eggs, white, and 

 of a roundifh lhape. In winter they collect in great 

 flocks. Their flefh is very rank and bad. 



XIII. The MALLARD. 



Les Canards et Ies Canes. Belon Kram. 341. 



av. 160. Anitra, Anitra falvatica, Cifone. 



Anas fera torquata minor. Anas Zinan. 105. 106. 



domeftica. Gefner a<v. 113, Anas bofchas. Anas domeftica. 



96. Lin.fyft. 205. 



Aldr. wv. iii. 83, 85. Gras-and, Blanacke. Faun. Suec. 



Common wild Duck and Mai- ^.131. 



lard. Common tame Duck. Fera.,Norvegis'Blaa.eha.h v. Graes- 



Wil. orn. 371, 380. And, aliis Stok-And. Danis 



Raii/yn. a<v. 14;, 1 50. Vild-And. Brunnicb. 87. 



Le Canard domeftique,le Canard Domeftica Danis Tarn- And. ibid, 



fauvage. Brijfon a<v. vi. 30S, 88. 



318. Br. Zoo/. 155. 

 Einheimifche ent. Stork ent. 



Defer A "T A HE mallard ufually weighs two pounds and an 

 -^ half: the length is twenty-three inches; the 

 breadth thirty- five: the bill is of a yellowifn 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 

 breaft is of a purplifh red ; and the beginning of the 

 back of the fame color : the breaft and belly of a pale 

 grey, marked with tranfverfe fpeckled lines of a 

 dufky hue: the fcapulars white, elegantly barred 

 4 with 



