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ORD. III. GEN. XI. DUCK. 



SPE. IV. VELVET DUCK. 



PL 248. 



Anas fufca. Lin. Syft. I. p. 196. 



La grande Macreufe. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 423. 



The male velvet duck weighs near three pounds. The fides and end of 

 the bill are orange colour ; from the noftrils it is black, rifing in a knob at 

 the bafe ; and the under mandible is much fhorter than the upper : the head, 

 neck, back, breaft, and tail, are of a glofly velvet black : wings, and belly, of 

 a brown black: the lefs wing coverts are tipped with white, forming a 

 broadifh line acrofs the wings ; and from the eye flanting to the back of the 

 neck, there is a white line : legs, reddiih brown. 



The female wants the flefhy knob, or rifing, at the bafe of the bill, and is 

 of a blackifh brown coloured plumage. 



This fpecies is an inhabitant of the northern parts of Europe and America, 

 and is fometimes, though rarely, feen on the fea fhores of Great Britain. It 

 feeds on fhell-fifh. 



