268 duck. 



on the sides of the rivers and ponds ; the nest made of sticks and 

 moss, lined with feathers from the breast, as in the Eider ; the eggs 

 four or five in number, yellowish white, and as large as those of a 

 Goose. The young fly in July : the food is principally worms and 

 grass. Known at Hudson's Bay by the name of Mis se sheep.* 

 We are now assured that it breeds in the Orkney Islands, since Mr. 

 Bullock found it in Papa Westra, the latter end of June; he adds, 

 that the eggs are six in number, yellowish white, rather smaller than 

 those of the Eider Species, placed on a rock, hanging over the sea. 

 Mr. B. also observed, that the eggs were bedded in a layer of down, 

 in the manner of those of the Eider Species. The trachea of the 

 King Duck is said to have so close a resemblance to that of the 

 Eider Duck, that one description and figure will suffice for both. f 

 Our late voyagers found both of them very numerous on the Coast 

 of Greenland, but very shy. 



40.— MUSCOVY DUCK. 



Anas moschata, Ind. Orn. ii. S46. Lin. i. 199. Fn. suec. No. ll& Gm. Lin. i. 515. 



Scop. i. No. 85. Frisch, 1. 180. Ph. Tr. lvii. 348. Bris. vi. 313. Id. 8vo. ii. 



446. Borowsk. iii. p. 11. 4. Get. uc. Sard. 323. 

 Anas Sylvestris Biasiliensis, Raii, 148. 1—150. 3. Will. 249. t. 75. 



Indica Gesneri, Will. 295. Klein, 131, 2. Gerin. v. t. 568, 569. 



Libyca, Will. 294. 



Die Turkische Ente, Schr. d. Berl. Nat. iii. 372. t. 7. f. 1.— the trachea. 



Die Bisamente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 636. Gunth. Nest. U. Ey. t. 90. Naturf. xii. 135. 76. 



Auitraruuta, Zinnan. Uov. 105. t. 18. f. 92. 



Le Canard musque, Buf. ix. 162. pi. 9. PL enl. 989. 



Le grand Canard, Voy. d' Azara, iv. No. 427. 



Muscovy, (Cairo, Guinea, India), Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 476. Id. Sup. ii. 348. Will. 



Engl. 381, 312. pi. 75. Albin, iii. pi. 97, 98. Descr. Surin. ii. 156. Beivick, ii. 



320. Lin. Trans, iv. 113. pi. xvi. f. 5, 6. 



LARGER than a Wild Duck ; length two feet.J Bill two inches 

 long, and red, except about the nostrils and tip, where it is brown ; 



* Mr. Hutchins. f It > s equal in diameter throughout, with a moderate, 



rounded enlargement at the bottom, from which the two bronchise proceed to the lung*. — 

 See Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 554. pi. 30. f. 1. 2. * In a wild state thirty-four inches. 



