356 duck. 



A. — Anas ferruginea, hid. Orn. \\. 866. Gm. Lin.\. 528. 

 Anas rufa, Faun. suec. No. 134. 



Red Duck, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 576. N. Br. Zool. Ed. 1812. pi. 45. 

 Ferruginous Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 526. Br. Zool. ii. No. 285. pi. 99. Bewick, ii. 359. 

 Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. Sf App. with a figure of the bird. 



WEIGHT twenty ounces. Bill pale blue, long, flattened, a 

 little rounding at the base, with a nail at the end, serrated on the 

 edges of both mandibles ; head, neck, and the whole of the upper 

 part of the head, reddish brown; throat, breast, and belly, the same, 

 but paler ; legs pale blue, webs black. 



Inhabits Sweden, said to be found in the rivers there, but rarely. 

 Mr. Pennant has received it from Denmark. An account of one 

 killed in Lincolnshire, was also sent to him by Mr. Bolton. By 

 some it has been thought to be the female of the Nyroca Duck ; by 

 others that of the Western Species. The one described and figured 

 in the Supp. to the Orn. Diet, was shot in the north of England. 

 Colonel Montagu considers it as a distinct species. 



114— NEW ZEALAND DUCK. 



Anas nova; Zealandia?, Ind. Orn. ii. 870. Gm. Lin. i. 541. 

 He patek, Forst. Voy. i. 168. Cook's Voy. i. p. 72 ? 

 New Zealand Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 543. 



SIZE of a Teal ; length fifteen inches. Bill bluish white, two 

 inches long, and somewhat stout ; nail black ; irides golden ; head 

 and neck black ; hind part glossed with purple, changing in some 

 lights to blue ; upper parts of the body and wings black, glossed 

 with green ; under parts of the body pale ash ; quills deep ash ; on 

 the secondaries a bar of white; tail short, dirty green; legs pale 

 ash-colour. 



Inhabits Dusky Bay, in New Zealand, where it is called He- 

 patek. — Sir Joseph Banks. Capt. Cook also mentions one in his 



