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'ORD, III. GEN. XI. DUCK. 



BROWN AND WHITE DUCK. 



PI. 261. 



This bird was painted from a fpecimen in the collection of Mr. Latham s 

 faid to have been taken at large in the ftate of nature. In fize it was rather 

 bigger than the garganey. I cannot fuppofe it, however, to be a diftinft 

 fpecies, but merely a variety of fome foreign duck kept for pleafure, or pro- 

 bably of domeftic breed. To the latter fuppofition I am led, by having ob- 

 ferved, in many parts of Kent, a breed of tame ducks of a footy brown colour* 

 fometimes mixed with white, as in the figure, of a much fmaller fize, and of a 

 longer make, than the varieties bred from the mallard. 



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