226 duck. 



the head, neck, beginning of the back, greater part of the wing, 

 quills, thighs, and tail, black ; the lesser wing coverts and the rest 

 of the plumage white. It stands high on the legs, which are yellow, 

 or orange, bare a good way above the joint; and the webs do not 

 reach more than half way between the toes. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; native name Bur-ra-yen-ne. I ob- 

 serve in some drawings that the lesser wing coverts are black, but 

 the inner ridge of the wing is white. How far these distinctions 

 are incident to difference of sex, or any age, has not come to our 

 knowledge. 



7. -LOGGERHEAD GOOSE. 



Anas brachyptera, Ind. Orn. ii. 834. 

 — — cinerea, Gm. Lin. i. 506. 



Oiseau gris, ou Oie de plein, Pernet. Voy. ii. C'h. 19. p. 21. 

 Racehorse Duck, Pernet. Journ. 213,214. Buf. ix. 414. III. 



Loggerhead Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 439. Ph. Trans, lxvi. 104. Penrose Falk. Isl. 35. 

 For st. Voy. ii. 492. 



LENGTH thirty-two inches ; weight from twenty to thirty 

 pounds.* Bill three inches long, colour orange, the top of the 

 upper mandible brown at the base, and black at the tip ; irides 

 orange, surrounded with black, and again with orange ; head and 

 neck deep ash-colour; upper parts of the body much the same ; the 

 outer edge of the secondary quills white, forming a band of the 

 same on the wing; under parts of the body dusky down the middle; 

 over the thighs cinereous blue; vent white ; quills and tail black ; 

 the last short, and pointed in shape ; the wings are likewise very 

 short, not reaching to the rump ; on the bend of the wing a double 

 yellow knob, half an inch in length; legs brownish orange; webs 

 dusky ; claws black. 



* Cook's Voy. 



