duck. 273 



beginning of the breast, spotted with black ; prime quills white, 

 tips variegated with brown ; speculum violet green ; tail pointed, 

 the feathers white, marked with a brown spot at the tip. 



45.-LOBATED DUCK. 



Lobated Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 349. Nat. Misc. pi. 255. 



LENGTH two feet six inches. Bill to the forehead one inch and 

 three quarters, to the gape two and a half; nostrils placed about 

 the middle, near the upper ridge ; general colour of the plumage 

 dusky black, crossed with numerous, transverse, pale, or whitish 

 lines, intermixed with minute irregular markings, and spots of the 

 same: the chin, fore part of the neck, and belly, white, marked, and 

 irregularly spotted with dusky black; wings short, at the bend a 

 knob; quills and tail dusky black, the last somewhat pointed in 

 shape : but the great singularity of this bird consists in a large flap, 

 extending the whole length of the under mandible beneath ; it is 

 one inch and a half deep, irregularly rounded, and hangs in folds ; 

 the legs are lead-colour. 



In the female the head, back of the neck, the back, wings, and 

 tail, are black ; sides of the head and all beneath pale grey brown, 

 crossed with numerous dusky broken stride, mixed on the breast with 

 a few ferruginous ones ; the whole of the back and wing coverts are 

 also crossed with numerous, fine, undulated white lines; quills and 

 and tail as in the male; legs black. 



Inhabits New-Holland. The legs in both sexes are short, and 

 placed very far behind, so as to oblige the bird to stand nearly 

 upright, in the manner of a Pinguin. In this state it measures from 

 the top of the head to the ground about thirty inches. In the 

 Museum of the Linna?an Society are two specimens, one of them 

 has the flap beneath the under mandible very short, which may 

 probably be a young male, as the female is said to be destitute of 



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