318 DUCK. 



behind; hind part of the head, neck, and breast, black; back and 

 lesser wing coverts deep cinereous grey, crossed with two bands of 

 very pale grey; bill and vent pale grey ; legs black. 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



82.— PIED DUCK. 



Anas Labradora, Ind. Orn. ii. 859. Gm. Lin. i. 537. Am. Orn. viii. 91. pi. 69. f. 6. 



minor picta, called Butterback, Bartr. Trav. 293 ? 



Pied Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 497. Lawson's Carol. 148? Arct. Zool. ii. 576. M. pi. in 

 frontispiece. 



LENGTH nineteen inches. The base of the bill and round the 

 nostrils, for about one-third, orange; the under mandible dusky; 

 head and neck rufous white, the feathers of the crown rising in a 

 narrow ridge, along the top of which runs a stripe of black to the 

 nape ; round the middle of the neck a collar of black, passing down 

 the middle, at the back part of the neck, quite to the back ; scapu- 

 lars white, some of the inner edged with black, and curve downwards 

 over the wings ; back and tail brown, secondaries white ; greater 

 quills dusky ; on the breast a black band; belly brown, like the 

 back, but paler; legs yellow, webs brown. 



The female has the plumage above dirty mottled brown ; on the 

 wing a white spot, arising from the tips of the second quills; under 

 the body dirty white ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Coast of Labrador, from whence a pair in possession 

 of Sir Joseph Banks was brought. That described in the Arctic 

 Zoology, came from Connecticut. Mr. Pennant thinks them the 

 same with the pretty Pied Ducks, which whistled as they flew, or 

 fed ; met with by Lawson, in the west branch of Cape Fear Inlet. 



According to the Amer. Ornith. this bird is subject, when young, 

 to a progressive change of colour; that it frequents the sand bars; 

 its principal food being shell fish, hence called Sand-shoal Duck. 



