312 DUCK. 



the flesh is thought pretty good, it is there reckoned coarse and 

 unsavoury. Tt is likewise found in other parts of the Continent, 

 for we have observed both sexes represented in various drawings done 

 in India. Is known on the Coromandel Coast by the name of 

 Lunkoor, and in some parts of India the male is called Lahkato, 

 and the female Alpncheto. 



Is met with in North America, about New York and Carolina, 

 during the winter season. A bird similar to this, if not the same, 

 comes to Hudson's Bay in the spring, and makes a whistling noise : 

 is known there by the name of Mimenewick. Found in the rice 

 fields near Savannah, in Georgia, but rare. 



A.— Anas muscaria, Lin. i. 200. /3. Fn. suec. No. 120. Rail; Syn. p. 146. Will. 2S7. 



Frisch, 262. Ind. Orn. ii. 857. /3. 

 Anas clypeata ventre candido, Bris. vi. 337. A. 7rf.8vo.ii. 451. Gen.Syn.x'i. 511. 



55. A. 



This differs from the former merely in having the belly white. 



B.— Anas fera, Boschas Mexicana, Bris. vi. 327. Id. Svo. ii. 449. 



Tempatlahoac, Rail, 176. Will.299. Id. Engl. 387. Gen. Syn. vi. 511. Ind. Orn. ii. 



857. y. 

 Le Canard spatule, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 431. 



Size of a Tame Duck. Bill broad, long, and black ; tongue 

 white ; head and neck green, glossed with purple and black ; irides 

 pale ; breast white ; the rest of the body beneath fulvous, with two 

 white spots on both sides near the tail ; above beautified with certain 

 semicircles, the outer edges of which from white incline to brown ; 

 the middle, or inner part from black to a shining green ; wings at 

 the beginning blue, next white, and then shining green ; yet their 

 extremes are on one side fulvous, on the other shining green ; the 

 circumference of the tail above and beneath white ; else black under- 

 neath, and of a Peacock-colour above. 



Inhabits Mexico. Its flesh like that of other marsh birds. 



