286 duck. 



55— DAMIETTA DUCK. 



Anas Damiatica, Ind. Orn. ii. 850. Gm. Lin. i. 535. Hasselq. It. 264. Id. Voy. 201 . 

 Black-headed Duck, Shaw's Trav. 254 ? 

 Damietta Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 417. 41. 



A TRIFLE bigger than the Mallard. Head, half the neck, 

 shoulders, and tip of the tail, black ; the rest of the neck before, 

 breast, back, sides, and tail white ; at the lower part of the neck, 

 next the back, a ferruginous crescent ; end of the wing the same 

 colour near the back ; quills greenish black ; hind claw very obtuse. 



Inhabits the Shores of Egypt ; most frequent on those near the 

 Mediterranean ; chiefly in the Bay of Damietta, and between Alex- 

 andria and Rosetta, where they are taken in nets. It is probably 

 too an inhabitant of Barbary, as it is not greatly unlike the one 

 described by Dr. Shaw, if not the same bird. 



56— MALLARD DUCK. 



Anas Boschas, Ind. Orn. ii. 850. Lin. i. 205. Fn.suec. No. 131. Gm. Lin.\. 538. 

 Phil. Trans, lxii. 419. Scop. i. No. 77. Brim. No. 87. Mull. No. 128. Kram. 

 341. 11. Frisch, t. 158, 159. Georgi, p. 166. Fn. groenl. No. 47. Fn. Arab. 



p. 3. 9. Fn. Arag. No. 76. Borowsk. iii. p. 18. Fn. Helv. Get. Uc. Sard. 321. 

 Sepp, iii. t. 111. 112. Blasii Anat. pi. 41 ? Phil. Trans, xvii. 711. pi. 15. Am. 



Orn. viii. 1 12. pi. 70. f. 7. Tern. Man. 537. Id. Ed. 2d. 836. 

 Anas fera, Gerin. v. t. 570. Bartr. Trav, p. 292. Bris. vi. 31S. Id. 8vo. ii. 447. 

 Boschas major, Raii, 145. A. 1. Will. p. 284. pi. 72. 

 Anitra, Zinnan. Uov. 105. t. 18. f. 93. Id. 106. t. 19. f. 94. 

 Die gemeine Ente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 681, 682. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 1046. Id. Must. 123. 



Naturf. xii. 132 ? Id. 137. 

 Wilde Ente, Gunth. Nest.u.Ey. t. 37. Schmid, p. 152. t. 131. 

 Canard Salvage, Buf. ix. 115. pi. 7, 8. PL enl. 776. 777. Ferm. Surin. ii. 156. 

 Wild Duck, Mallard, Gen. Syn. vi. 489. Id. Sup. ii. 351. Br. Zool. ii. 279. pi. 97. 



Id.fol. 175. Id. 1812. ii. 258. pi. 43. Will. Engl. 308. pi. 72. Albin, ii. pi. 



10. Id. i. pi. 99. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 494. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 327. Lin.Tr.iv. 



112. pi. 13. f. 10.— the trachea. Emb. to China, ii. p. 400. Lewin, vii. pi. 246. 



Id. pi. L. f. 2. — the egg. Donov. v. pi. 124. Walcot, i. pi. 77. Pult. Dors. 



p. 21. Orn. Diet. Graves, Vol. 1. 



THIS species is nearly two feet in length, and weighs from two 

 and a half to three pounds. The bill is greenish yellow ; head and 



