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The irides are of a bright yellow : the head and upper 

 part of the neck of a blackifh green : the lower part of 

 the neck, the breaft, and the fcapulars are white : the 

 back brown : the coverts of the wings of a fine sky 

 blue; thofe next the quil-feathers tipt with white: 

 the greater quil-feathers are dusky ; the exterior webs 

 of thofe in the middle, are of a glofly green. The 

 tail confifts of fourteen feathers ; the outmoft are 

 white •, thofe in the middle black, edged with white : 

 the belly is of a bay color : the vent-feathers black: 

 the legs red. The female has the fame marks in the 

 wings as the male, but the colors are lefs bright : the 

 reft of the plumage refembles that of the common 

 wild duck. 



XV. The RED BREASTED SHOVELER. 



E are indebted to Mr. Bolton for the defcrip- 

 tion of this bird, who informed us that it 

 was fometimes taken in the decoys in LincohtJJoire. 



It is the fize of a common duck. The bill large, Ddcr. 

 broad, ferrated at the fides, and entirely of a brownifh 

 yellow color : the head large : eyes fmall : irides yel- 

 low : the breaft and throat of a reddifh brown, the 

 latter paler, but both quite free from any fpots. The 

 back is brown, growing paler towards the fides. The 

 tips and pinions of the wings grey : the quil-feathers 

 brown ; the reft of a greyifh brown : the fpectdum or 

 fpot purple, edged with white : in the female, the 

 fpot is blue, and all the other colors are fainter. The 

 tail is ftiort and white : the vent feathers of a bright 



brown 



