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O R D. III. G E N. XI. DUCK. 



SPE. XI. RED-BREASTED DUCK. 

 PL 255. 

 Anas rutila. Fauna Suecic. No. 1 3 4. 



This fpecies weighs twenty ounces. The bill is broad, flat, and of a pale blue 

 colour j nail, black : eyes, pearl colour : head, neck, and breaft, brown red : 

 back, darker: belly, pale chefnut: lefs wing coverts, edged with white: 

 greater, glofly green, with pale yellow edges : quill feathers, black : legs, pale 

 blue j webs, black. 



I fhot one of thefe rare ducks in a large piece of frelh water near Fever- 

 fliam, in Kent, October the 12th, 1788. It is fcarce even in the Swedifli 

 rivers, where we may fuppofe it breeds. 







