266 duck. 



Billing.* A Variety is said to be found at Spitsbergen, not so large 

 as generally described, exceeding very little in size the Domesticated 

 Duck.f 



39.— KING DUCK. 



Anas spectabilis, Ind.Orn.n. 845. Lin. i. 195. Fn. suec. No. 112. Gm. Lin. i. 907. 



Mus. Ad. Fr.il p. 25. Muller, No. 108. Mus. Carls, t. 39.— male. 40.— female. 



Fn. Groenl. 63. Tern. man. 551. Id. Ed. 2d. 852. Parr. App. p. ccvii. 

 Anser Hudsonis, Bris. vi. 365. Id. Svo. ii. 458. 

 Canard & tete grise, Buf. ix. 253. 

 Grey-headed Duck, Edw. pi. 154. 

 King Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 473. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 481. Lewin, vii. pi. 245. Orn. 



Die. Sf App. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. 246. Lin. Trans, xii. 553. 



SMALLER than the last ; length near two feet ; bill orange- 

 colour ; on the base of the upper mandible a semicircular ridged 

 protuberance, compressed on the sides, and flat on the top, where it is 

 divided into two, the elevated parts velvety black, passing on each 

 side in a line to the eyes ; crown of the head and nape of an elegant 

 pale ash-colour ; at the base of the upper mandible the feathers are 

 pea-green, passing backwards on each side the neck, and including 

 half the eye ; beneath this, and round to the chin, dirty white ; but 

 these two colours blend themselves by degrees into each other; under 

 the chin two black streaks, meeting at top, and diverging as they 

 advance downwards, like the letter V inverted ; the rest of the neck 

 and breast whitish ; middle of the back, whole of the belly, and 

 vent, black ; wings dusky, middle of the coverts white; quills black, 

 the secondaries somewhat curving over the greater ; the shafts deep 

 ferruginous ; on each side of the outer ones a patch of white; legs 

 reddish. The female is smaller; the gibbous part of the bill neither 

 so large nor so high coloured, but the feathery part on the ridge 

 broader ; the colour of both bill and legs more dull, inclining to 

 brown ; the plumage is in general brown, the middle of each 



* Voy. p. 225. f Scoresby's Arctic Reg. vol. i. p. 527. 



