262 duck. 



37.— SCOPOLINE GOOSE. 



Anas albicans, Ind. Om. ii. 845. Gm.Lin.'i. 516. 

 Branta albifrons, Scop. i. No. 87. 

 White-fronted Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 349. 



SIZE of a Cock. General colour of the plumage brown ; head 

 and neck inclining to rufous; forehead and beneath white; upper 

 part of the breast cinereous, the feathers margined with pale fer- 

 ruginous, with a rufous band near the tip; quills within and tips 

 white. 



38— EIDER GOOSE. 



Anas mollissima, Ind. Orn.u. 845. Lin. \. 198. Fn. suec. No. 117. Gm. Lin.\. 514. 

 Bran. No. 57— 66. Id. Monogr. t. \.2. Muller, No. 116. Borowsk. iii. 5. t. 32. 

 Klein, 130. 10. Mus. Carls, i. t. 6. Am. Om. viii. 122. pi. 71. f. 2.— male. t. 3.— 

 female. Lin. Trans, xii. 554. pi. 30. f. 1.2.— the trachea. Tern. Man. 549. Id. Ed. 

 2d. 849. Parr. App. p. ccviii. 



Anser septentrionalis, Gerin. v. t. 562. 



Anser lanuginosus, Bris. vi. 294. t. 29. 30. Id. 8vo. ii. 440. 



Anas S. Cutberti, Raii, 141. A. 3. F. Will. 278. t. 77. F. 



Die Eidergans, Bechst. Dents, ii. 625. t. 21. 22. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 926. Waullb. Monog. 

 Brun. Eder-fuglens. Schmid, Voy. p. 149. t. 121. 



OieaDuvet, Eider, Buf. ix. 103. t. 6. Pl.enl. 209.— male. 208.— female. 



Great black and white Duck, Edw. pi. 98. — male and female. 



Eider, or Cuthbert Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 470. Id. Sup. 274. Br. Zool. ii. No. 271. pi. 

 95. Id.fol. 152. pl.Q. Id. 1812. ii. 242. pi. 40. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 480. Tour 

 in Scotland, i. No. 209. Von Troil. Icel. p. 144. 146. Will. Engl. 362. pl.76.§ 

 I. &. II. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 314. Lin. Tr. viii. 268. Lewin, vii. pi. 244. 244.* 

 Id. pi. L.— the egg. Wale. i. pi. 66. Om. Diet. 



LESS than a Goose ; length twenty-six inches, breadth forty- 

 four; weight three pounds and a half. Bill two inches, black; the 

 feathers on each side come very forward, almost to the nostrils ; the 

 top of the head, taking in the eyes, black, continued in a line of the 

 same on each side, where the feathers project on the bill ; below the 



