302 DUCK. 



Carolina; is known in Georgia, and called by some the Raft Duck,* 

 frequenting the ponds in flocks during the winter season ; is com- 

 monly fat, and the flesh well flavoured. Drawings of both sexes 

 sent from Savannah, in Georgia, by Mr. Abbot, were distinguished 

 as such, by the names of Grey Duck and Blue Bill. 



A.— Millouinan, Bvf. ix. 221. PI. enl. 1002. Lid. Orn. ii. 854. Gen. Syn. vi. 

 502. 49. A. 



Size of the last ; length twenty-one inches. Head, neck, and 

 breast, black, bronzed with green, with a hue of copper about the 

 eyes; lower part of the breast and belly white; back, scapulars, 

 lesser wing coverts, and between the legs striated with fine transverse 

 lines of black, and dusky white ; lower part of the back, vent, and 

 tail, black; greater wing coverts half black, half white; second 

 quills much the same; prime quills dusky; legs black. 



This was killed in France, on the coast of Picardy. Buffbn also 

 mentions another from Louisiana, but smaller. It is probably only 

 a Variety of the Scaup Duck. 



66— WHITE-FACED DUCK. 



THE MALE. 



Anas Discors, Ind. Orn. ii. 854. Lin. i. 205. Gm. Lin. i. 535. Bartr. Trav. 293. 



Amer. Orn. viii. 74. pi. 68. f. 4. Frank!. Narr. App. p. 701. 

 Querquedula Americana, Bris. vi. 452. Id. 8vo. ii. 478. Klein, Av. 134. Brown, 



Jami 4S1. 

 Sarcelle Soucrourou, Bvf. ix. 279. PI. enl. 966. — male. 

 Blue Wing, Bumab. Trav. p. 16. 

 White-faced Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 502. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 503. Cates. Car. i. pi. 



100. Brown, Jam. 481. 



* But the Raft Dnck, truly so called, is another species, described by us hereafter. 



