ClafsII. GREY HEADED DUCK. 471 



XIX. The FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 



Anas rufa roftro pedibufque cinereis. Faun. Suec. fp. 4.7. 



TH E defcription of this fpecies was fent to us Defer- 

 by Mr. Bolton. The weight was twenty ounces: 

 the bill is long and flatted, rounded a little at the 

 bafe, ferrated along the edges of each mandible, and 

 furnifhed with a nail at the end of the upper. The 

 color a pale blue. The head, neck, and whole upper 

 part of the bird is of an agreeable reddifh brown : 

 the throat, breaft and belly of the fame color, but 

 paler : the legs of a pale blue ; but the webs of the 

 feet black. 



This fpecies, he informed us, was killed in 

 Lincoln/hire. We do not find it mentioned by any 

 writer, except Linnaeus toke his defcription from Rud- 

 fock's paintings ; and adds, that it is found, though 

 rarely, in the Swedifi rivers. 



XX. The GREY HEADED DUCK. 



Glaucion, en francoys le Moril- Mdr. aw. iii. 92. 

 Ion. Belon wv. 166. 



"1 T 7E are likewife indebted to Mr. Bolton for an ac- Defer, 



* 7 count of this bird, which he fufpects to be the 

 Glaucion of authors. It agrees in all refpects with 

 Belon's defcription of that bird 3 the head and neck 

 excepced, which in that of the i 7 ^/;^ ornithologift are 

 of a reddifh brown *. 



* Tannee. 



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