duck. 357 



voyage bigger than a Teal, all black, except the Drake, which has 

 some white in the wings, but met with only at the head of the bay. 

 The above seems to bear some affinity to the Tufted Duck. 



115.— CRESTED DUCK. 



Anas cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 870. Gm. Lin. i. 540. 

 Crested Duck, Gen. Syn. v\. 543. 



SIZE of the Mallard ; length twenty-eight inches. Bill two 

 inches long, black, turning up at the end, edges of the under man- 

 dible yellowish ; irides red ; top of the head dusky, crested at the 

 nape; forehead, sides under the eyes, and neck, pale ash-colour ; 

 chin, and neck before, pale cream, transversely spotted round the 

 lower part with dusky and ferruginous; back and wing coverts deep 

 dusky ash ; lower part of the back and rump inclining to rufous ; 

 speculum of the wings fine blue, bounded below with white ;* quills 

 and tail black ; the last pointed in shape, and longer than the wings. 



Inhabits Staaten Land. From the same drawings as the last. 



In some other drawings is one, answering to the above descrip- 

 tion, but with no blue speculum on the wing; instead of which is 

 a large patch of white, arising from the second quills being of that 

 colour, and some of the greater ones edged with white. 



116— HAWKESBURY DUCK. 



Anasjubata, Ind. Orn. Slip- p. lxix. 



Hawkesbury Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 358.— pi. in title page. 



LENGTH twenty-two inches ; size of a Wigeon ; but the bill 

 rather shorter and black ; head and neck chocolate brown ; at the 

 nape the feathers are much lengthened, somewhat paler, and black 



* In the drawing is some appearance of a knob on the joint of the wing, but as nothing 

 is said about this in the MS the circumstance must remain uncertain. 



