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 The Tufted Duck. Anas Fuligula. /^i//u^ 



Numb. XCV. ^ 



ITS Weight is thirty two Ounces ; its Length from the Tip of the 

 Bill to the End of the Tail is feventeen Inches and three quarters ; 

 the Breadth when the Wings are extended thirty Inches ; the Bill from 

 the Tip to the Corners of the Mouth is about two Inches long, broad, 

 of a pale blue Colour, all but the Tip, which is black ; the Feathers of 

 the Forehead defcend down the middle of the Bill in a Peak or Angle ; 

 the Noftrils are great, and placed at fome Diftance from the Plumage ; 

 the Ir'tdes of the Eyes are of a yellow or Gold Colour ; the Ears fmall, as is 

 common in all Water-Fowl ; the Head, efpecially the Crown, is of a dark 

 purple, inclining to black, or rather a Mixture of black with fome purple ; 

 at Venice and other places in Ital'y^ it is called Capo Negro ; it hath a 

 Creft or Crop hanging down backwards from the Head an Inch and a 

 half long ; the Colour of the Neck, Shoulders, Back, in fine, the whole 

 upper part, is a dark brown, almoft black. 



The Wings are fhort, and all the covert Feathers black ; the four outer- 

 moft Quills of the fame Colour with the Body, the fucceeding by de- 

 grees whiter ; the fecond Decade or middle Quills are purely white, ex- 

 cept their Tips which are black ; the next fix are wholly black, and the 

 Tail is very ftiort compofed of fourteen black Feathers. The nether Side 

 of the Neck, and fore Part of the Breaft are black, and the reft of the Bread: 

 and Belly as far as the Vent, of a white or filver Colour ; the lower the 

 darker ; behind the Vent it is black, the lateral Feathers covered by the 

 Wings when clofed ; thofe on the Thighs, and the under covert of the 

 Wings are white ; the interior Baftard Wing confifts of fix white Feathers; 

 the Legs are fhort and fituate backwards ; the Feet of a livid or dark Lead 

 Colour, the Web black, and the Toes long. 



The Body is fhort, thick, broad, and fomething comprefTed or flat ; 

 the Wind-Pipe hath its Labyrinth ; the Liver is divided into two Lobes, 

 having a Gall annexed ; the Gizzard is compofed of thick Mufcles, and. 

 therein was found nothing but fmall Stones and Sea Wreck. 



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