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i Webbed-footed. Faun. Am. Sept. 



zg. Anas, f 44. Marila. 196. 8. Scaup Duck. Br. 

 Duck,tZool. Faun. Am. Sept. 17. 



Severn River, N° 44 and 45. Fifhing Ducks.- 



Linneus's defcription, and the figure in the Br. 

 Zoology, folio, plate Q^ p. 153, agree per- 

 fectly well with the fpecimens. The female,, 

 as Linneus obferves, is quite brown, the bread: 

 and upper part of the back being of a glofly 

 reddifh brown ; the fpeculum of the wing; 

 and the belly are white. The eyes of the; 

 male have- very bright yellow irides y thofe 

 of the female are of a faint dirty yellow. 

 The female is two ounces heavier than the 

 male, which weighs one pound and an half, 

 is 16 1 inches long,, and 20 inches broad. 



Anas. 45. Nivalis. SnowGoofe. Faun. Am. Sept. 

 p. 16. Lawfon's Carolina. Anfer niveus BiirT 

 VI. . 288. Klein. Anfer nivis. Schwenkfeld, Mar- 

 figli. Danub. p. 802. t. 49. 

 Severn River, N° 40, and a young one,. N° 41. white 

 Goofe.- 

 Thefe white geefe are very numerous at Hud- 

 fon's Bay, many- thoufands being annually 

 killed with the gun, for the ufe of the fet- 

 tlements. They are ufually fhot whilfl on; 

 the wing, the Indians being very expert at 

 that exercife, which they learn from their 

 ^outhj they w r eigh -five or fix pounds, are 



24. feet: 



