278 duck. 



The flesh has an exceedingly rank and fishy taste, and therefore- 

 allowed by the Roman Catholics to be eaten on fast days, and in 

 Lent, and to say the truth, must be a sufficient mortification. 



This is a common species in all the northern parts of the Continent, 

 Lapland, Sweden, Norway, and Russia ; and very plentiful on the 

 great lakes and rivers of the north and east of Siberia, as well as on 

 the sea shores. 



Inhabits also North America; not uncommon at New York,* and 

 in all probability much more to the north on that continent, and that 

 of Asia. Osbeck met with them in 30 and 34 degrees south latitude, 

 between the Island of Java and St. Paul in the month of June f . 



Authors agree in saying, that there is no enlargement of the 

 trachea in either sex, but although it is in some measure true, if 

 compared with that of the Velvet Duck, yet this organ deviates not 

 a little from the simple structure. In the male it appears somewhat 

 enlarged about the middle, growing smaller at the bottom ; attached 

 to this are the two divisions of the bronchia?, each larger than the 

 end of the tube they spring from, and consist of about eleven or 

 twelve rings, which are very firm, and nearly osseous externally, 

 but on the inside more tender and cartilaginous, contracting much 

 in drying; beyond these the remaining part of the bronchise is very 

 small, and so passes on to the lungs on each side. 



50— CINEREOUS DUCK. 



Anas cineraseens, Tern. Man. 535. Id. Ed. 2d. 858. 

 — — cinerea, S. G. Gmel. reise, ii. 184. t. 18. 



LENGTH sixteen or seventeen inches. Bill long, strong, broad, 

 black, with a nail at the end ; nostrils and under mandible flesh- 

 colour ; irides brown ; the eye, crown, hindhead, nape, and breast, 

 deep brown ; space under the eyes, sides, and fore part of the neck, 



* Aret. Zool. f Voy. i. 120. 



