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The Smew. Albellus. 



Numb. LXXXIX. 



IT weighs about twenty four Ounces ; its Length from the Point of the Bill to the 

 End of the Tail is eighteen Inches and a halfj its Breadth when extended is twenty 

 feven Inches. 



Its Head and Neck is white, except a black Spot under the Creft, which it hath 

 hanging down backward from behind its Head, encompaffing the Creft, and ending in an 

 acute Angle below, and another on each Side extending from the Angles of the Mouth to 

 the Eyes ; theBreaft, Belly and under Side are white ; the Back and Wings are black and 

 white, agreeably mixed on each Side, with feveral arcuate Lines of black, half incircling 

 the Neck, refembling half a Collar. 



The Tail is dufky, between afh coloured and black, compofed of fixteen Feathers three 

 Inches and a half long ; the middle Feathers are longeft, the reft on each Side gradually fhor- 

 tening to the outermoft. 



The Bill is of a cinereous or Lead Colour, but at the Tip of each Mandible is a Spot of 

 fordid white ; it is thicker at the Head, growing flenderer by degrees towards the Point, 

 and narrower and lefs than the Duck-kind; the upper Mandible is hooked at the End, and 

 toothed on the Sides ; the Noftrils are oblong, open, and at a good Diftance from the Fea- 

 thers ; the Eyes are of a dark Colour 5 the Legs of a dark Lead Colour, the Toes being join'd 

 by a dufky Membrane ; the foremoft Toe and back Toe have lateral appendant Mem- 

 branes reaching their whole Length. 



The Wind-Pipe at the Divarication ends in a great, ftrong, bony Veffel, which is cal- 

 led a Labyrinth, whence proceed the two Branches tending to the Lungs : This Bird hath 

 but one blind Gut, which is ihort and blunt ; the Wind-Pipe is faftnedto the upper Angle 

 of the Merry-thought, by a tranfverfe Ligament, and then afcends upwards to the Laby- 

 rinth ; it feeds upon Fifties. 



. It hath a large G:ill, oblong Tefticles, and the Guts have many Revolutions ; the Sto- 

 mach is larger than in graniverous Birds, and lefs mufculous, in which you will commonly 

 find Fifties. 



The whole Head and Cheeks of the Female are red or fulvous, and the Throat white; 

 on the Beginning of the Breaft above the Craw, there is feen as it were a Collar of a dar- 

 ker or bro^vn Colour, and it hath no Creft ; all the upper Side except the Wings is of a 

 dufky afh Colour, or brown ; about the middle of each Wing are two tranfverfe white Lines ; 

 and in ail other Particulars it agrees with the Male. 



They feldom come into England but in hard Winters, and then not in large Flocks, 

 but three or four together. 



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