332 duck. 



The female differs but little, but the bars on the under parts of 

 the body are more numerous than in the male ; and in both sexes 

 the vent is buff-colour. 



Inhabits New South Wales, but is said to be a rare species, 

 known to the natives by the name of Yeronge, or Wrongi. We 

 have to observe, that the figure of this bird, in the Naturalist's 

 Miscellany, has the bill too much elongated, and not swelling out 

 at the end, which is the case in the real bird ; the crown, too, in this 

 representation is whitish, and not ash-colour. 



95- SOFT-BILLED DUCK. 



Anas malacorhynchos, Ind. Orn. ii. 862. Gm. Lin. i. 526. 



Blue-grey Duck with a soft bill, Cook's Voy. i. p. 72. 97. Foist. Voy. i. 157. 



Soft-billed Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 522. 67. 



LENGTH eighteen inches. Bill one inch and a quarter long, of 

 a pale ash, the end of it soft, membranaceous, and black ; the top of 

 the head greenish ash; body in general pale bluish lead-colour; 

 across the wing a spot of white ; on the breast a mixture of fer- 

 ruginous; legs dusky blue. 



Inhabits New Zealand : met with in Dusky Bay, in April. It 

 is singular on account of the end of the bill being flexible and soft; 

 is supposed to live chiefly by suction, searching out the worms, &c. 

 in the mud, when the tide retires from the beaches. Said to whistle 

 like the Whistling Duck. Called at New Zealand, He-weego. 



96— POCHARD DUCK. 



Anas ferina, Ind. Orn. ii. 862. Lin. i. 203. Fit. suec. No. 127. Gm. Lin. i. 530. 



Bran. No. 80. Muller, No. 124. Frisch, t. 171. Fn. Helv. Fn. Arab. iv. No. 



13. Batt. Amer. Orn. viii. 110. pi. 70. f. 6. ? Tern. Man. 564. Id. Ed. 2d. 869. 

 Anas fera fusca, Raii, 143. A. 10. Will. 288. t. 72. Id. 282. 12— female. Klein, 



Av. 132.5. 



