352 DUCK. 



a native of this part of the world, we cannot be positive of the 

 circumstance; it certainly is found in India, and there called Kuyla, 

 and Kra chuckrconah. 



110— RAFT DUCK. 



Anas fuligula, Am. Om. viii. 60. pi. 67. f. 5 ? 



LENGTH seventeen or eighteen inches. Bill two inches long, 

 a little turning up at the end, and bent into a black nail at the point, 

 colour dusky black ; about half an inch from the tip an irregular pale 

 blue grey bar, a quarter of an inch broad, surrounded at the base 

 by a ring of the same ; irides yellow ; head and neck bright black ; 

 with a purplish gloss; hindhead full of feathers, but not sufficient 

 to form a crest; just under the bill a triangular white spot; round 

 the middle of the neck a deep chestnut collar about an inch in 

 breadth; from thence, all round to the breast, dusky black, but 

 without any gloss of purple ; back, wings, rump, and tail, the same, 

 but with a tinge of brown ; under parts of the body from the breast 

 white, passing upwards on each side in a line before the wings; in 

 the place of a speculum a large patch of pale dove, or pale ash- 

 colour, with a tinge in some lights of lilac; and some of the feathers 

 composing it fringed with white, with a line of white at the hind 

 part; above this very deep glossy green, but neither very bright; 

 vent and under tail coverts deep chocolate brown ; under wing 

 coverts mostly white; sides under the wings and lower belly undu- 

 lated with numerous lines of grey; under scapulars six in number, 

 and white, as in the Tufted Duck ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits America : met with by Mr. Abbot about Georgia, and 

 is frequent in the ponds in the winter; sent by him to England, by 

 the name of Black Duck, and called there by some the Raft Duck. 



In the collection of India drawings is a similar bird, having a 

 transverse patch of white on the wings, bounded with a narrow 



