274 duck. 



any ; yet I have been informed by a person from New-Holland, that 

 both sexes, when adult, have the flap; hut in the female it is much 

 smaller. 



46.— ROYAL DUCK. 



Anas regia, Ind. Orn. ii. 847. 



Canard royal, Molin. Chil. p. 206. Id. Fr. Ed. 212. 



THIS is a trifle larger than a Mallard, with a compressed 

 caruncle on the forehead, forming a sort of crest or comb ; plumage 

 on the upper part of the body fine blue, the under grey ; about 

 the neck a beautiful white collar. — Inhabits Chili. 



47- GEORGIAN DUCK. 



Anas Georgica, Ind. Orn. ii. S47. Gm. Lin. i. 516. 

 Georgia Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 478. 



LENGTH twenty inches. Bill two, yellow, and turns up a 

 little at the end, edges and tip dusky black ; irides reddish brown ; 

 head and neck pale reddish ash-colour, marked with dusky spots ; 

 scapulars the same, but darker ; wing coverts pale ash ; speculum 

 of the wings pale verdigris green, edged with dusky, bounded above 

 and beneath with a bar of white ; sides pale cinereous, marked with 

 spots of a deeper colour ; quills and tail dusky ; legs greenish ash. 



Found in South Georgia the middle of January, and proved a 

 male bird ; the flesh said to be good eating. — Sir Jos. Banks. 



Another, supposed to be allied, was met with at the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; the general colour dusky ash, mottled on the breast 

 with white. 



