320 DUCK. 



84.— GADWAL DUCK. 



Anas stvepera, Ind. Orn. ii. 859. Lin. i. 200. Fn.suec. No. 121. Gm.Lin.i. 520. 



Brun.p.2\. Midler, No. 118. Frisch, t. 168. Georgi, p. 166. Gmel. reise, ii. 



183. 1. 17. Borowsk. iii. p. 12. Fn. Helv. Bris. vi. 339. t. 33. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 



452. Klein, 132. 6. Cet. Uc. Sard. 325. Gerin. v. t. 574, 575. Amer. Orn. 



viii. 120. pi. 91. f. 1. Tern. Man. 539. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 837. 

 Anas platyrhynchos, Rail, 145. A. 2. Wi//. 287. 



Die Schnattevente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 642. /</. £rf. 2d. iv. 1096. Nat. xn. 136. 

 Kraak Eend, Sepp, Vog. iv. t. p. 315. — male and female. 

 Chipeau, Buf. ix. 187. pi. 12.— female. PL enl. 958.— male. 

 Gadwall, or Grey, Gen. Syn. vi. 515. Id. Sup. ii. 353. Br. Zool. ii. No. 288. Id.fol. 



157. pi. Q. 3. Id. 1812, ii. p. 275. Arct. Zool. ii. 575. I. Will. Engl. 374. pi. 



72. Bexe. ii. p. 350. Lin. Trans, iv. p. 111. pi. xiii. f. 9. — the Trachea. Lewin, 



vii. p. 25. pi. 258. Walcot, ii. pi. 68. Pult. Dors. p. 21. Orn. Die. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of the Wigeon ; length nineteen inches. Bill two, black; 

 the head and greater part of the neck brown, mixed and spotted 

 with rufous and black ; sides of the head, throat, and fore part of the 

 neck, rufous white, spotted with brown, palest near the head; lower 

 part of the neck, beginning of the back, and breast, brown, marked 

 with curved or waved white lines; lower part of the back black brown ; 

 rump, upper, and under tail coverts, black; breast and belly white, 

 spotted with grey; lower belly, sides, and thighs, barred with whitish 

 and grey brown lines; vent dark; on the wings are four distinct 

 colours, the lesser coverts pale reddish brown, the following reddish, 

 and below this black, and tinally on the second quills a patch of 

 white; tail ash-colour, edged with white; legs orange. 



In the female the colours on the wings are much the same, but 

 duller; breast reddish brown, spotted with black; chiefly in the 

 shape of crescents ; the feathers of the neck and back edged with 

 pale red ; rump the same, instead of black ; and those elegant, 

 semicircular lines on the neck and breast wholly wanting. 



