DUCK. 



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crown of the head chestnut; nape streaked with the same; sides of 

 the head and throat dirty white ; lower part of the neck rufous chest- 

 nut; breast and between the shoulders yellow ash, paler on the 

 breast, and the feathers with yellowish margins ; back and scapu- 

 lars chestnut ; inner wing coverts ash, inclining to rufous ; greater 

 coverts ash ; quills black, but most of them have the base white, 

 making an oblique bar on the wing ; lower part of the back, the 

 rump, tail, belly, and under the wings, black ; under tail coverts 

 mottled black and white; legs yellow, claws black ; hind toe pretty 

 long. — Inhabits the West Indies, also Cayenne, and other parts of 

 the Continent contiguous. 



Is said to be very common at New Granada, in South America, 

 and frequently kept tame in the farm yards, between the tropics; but 

 is apt to be quarrelsome, and will often fly away. The Spaniards 

 call it Pisesic, from its voice ; known to the English by the name of 

 Spanish-main Duck ; is now and then seen alive in our menageries, 

 in England, and is said to have propagated in an aviary at Schon- 

 brun, in Sweden. 



62.- BLACK-BILLED WHISTLING DUCK. 



Anas arborea, Ind. Orn. ii. 852. Lin. i. 207. Gm. Lin. i. 540. Lawson, Carol. 149. 

 — — fistulans Jamaicensis, Bris. vi. 403. Id. 8vo. ii. 467. Rati, 192. Sloan. Jam. 



324. t. 273. Brown, Jam. p. 480. 

 Siffleur a bee noir, Buf. ix. 185. PI. enl. 804. 

 Black-billed Whistling Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 499. Edw. pi. 193. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 



492. Cates. Car. App. xxxvii. 



LESS than a Mallard. Bill black ; irides hazel ; crown of the 

 head dusky, somewhat crested at the back part, and rufous brown ; 

 neck long and slender, hind part of it brown ; back and scapulars 

 the same, but the margins of the feathers rufous ; sides of the head 

 and throat white; fore part of the neck white; breast pale rufous ; 

 both the last spotted with black ; belly, thighs, and vent, like the 



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