308 DUCK. 



collection of Lord Stanley. One, greatly corresponding, was formerly 

 in the Leverian Museum ; and among Sir Joseph Banks's drawings 

 another, brought from the Cape of Good Hope. 



70- CRIMSON-BILLED DUCK. 



Anas erythrorhyncha, Ind. Orn. ii. 855. Gm. Lin. i. 517. 

 Crimson-billed Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 507. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill two inches long, turning up a little 

 at the end, colour fine deep crimson ; irides red ; plumage on the 

 upper parts dusky brown, palest on the forehead ; the feathers of 

 the back very pale on the margins ; chin, sides of the head beneath 

 the eye, and the rest of the under parts, white ; but the sides of the 

 breast are irregularly spotted with brown ; on the wing a transverse 

 narrow bar of white ; below it another of buft-colour ; tail and legs 

 dusky black. — Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



71.— ILATHERA DUCK. 



Anas Bahamensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 855. Lin. i. 199. Gm. Lin. i. 516. Bris. vi. 358. 



Id. 8vo. ii. 456. Klein, Av. 134. 18. 

 Mareca prima Aid r. Raii, 149. 4. Will. 292. Id. Engl. 379. § xi. 

 Le Marec, Buf. ix. 256. 

 Ilathera Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 507. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 495. Cates. Car. i. pi. 93. 



SIZE of the Common Duck ; length seventeen inches. Bill 

 lead-colour, marked on each side, near the base, with a triangular 

 orange spot ; top of the head rufous grey ; neck behind, back, 

 scapulars, and rump, rufous brown ; cheeks, throat, and fore part of 

 the neck, white; breast, belly, and thighs, rufous grey, spotted with 

 black ;* under tail coverts plain ; lesser wing coverts dusky brown, 

 the greater green, with black tips; second quills dull yellow, prime 

 ones dusky ; legs lead-colour. 



* The whole breast and lower belly hath an obscure resemblance of the colour of oaken 

 boards, and is besides variegated with black points.— Willughby. 



