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The Sea Pheafant Cock and Hen. Anas caudacuta' 



Numb. XCIV, ^CV. 



IT S Weight was one Pound and eight Ounces ; Length, from the Point of the Bill 

 to the End of the Tail, twenty eight Inches ; Breadth, when the Wings are extended, 

 thirty feven Inches j its Head is {lender j its Neck long for this Kind; of equal Breadth 

 almoft throughout; the nether Mandible wholly black, the upper pardy blue partly 

 black, "Jtz. black in the middle, on the Sides beneath the Noftrils blue, black alfo ac 

 the Corners of the Mouth, at the very Tip, and in the lower Edges near the Tip; the 

 Colour of the Plumage on the whole Head is ferrugineous or brown, behind the Ears 

 tindured with a light purple, beyond the Ears on each Side from the hinder part of 

 the Head begins a Line of white, which paffes down the fides of the Neck to the 

 Throat; all the Feathers between or adjacent to thefe Lines are black; under the 

 black the Neck is afh-coloured, then curioufly varied with tranfverfe black and white 

 Lines, as is alfo almoft the whole Back; the long fcapular Feathers are black in their 

 middle parts, but the exteriour have their outer Webs almoft to the Shafts black, their 

 inner (which are much the narrower) varied with white and black with a mixture of 

 brown in Lines; all the nether part. Neck, Breaft, and Belly to the very Vent are 

 white; the Thighs are light afti-colour varied with black Specks; the Feathers under 

 the Tail are black ; the Wings, of which the ten outmoft Quills and moft of the co- 

 vert Feathers are of a dark cinereous inclining to a brown; in fome Birds the interiour 

 Edges of the feventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth Quills are white; the fecond Decade of 

 Quills is parti-coloured, for the Tips of all are white, or from white to red, then in the 

 outer Web fucceeds a black Line, the remaining Part thereof, as far as appears beyond 

 the incumbent Feathers, being of a glittering purple Colour; the interiour Webs of all 

 are of the fame Colour with the reft of the Feathers, of the following the exteriour 

 Webs are cinereous, the interiour black ; the covert Feathers of the fecond Row im- 

 mediately incumbent on the fecond decade of Qtiills have their Tips of a rediih yellow. 



The Tail is made up of fixteen Feathers all afh-coloured, excepting their exteriour 

 Edges, which are whitifli; the two middlemoft run out into very long and fharp Points, 

 their Ends black, being produced two Inches and a half beyond the reft, which gives 

 rhis Bird the Name of the Sea-Pheaja?it, or with fome the Pintail; its Feet are of a 

 dark lead Colour, it hath a fmall Labyrinth, and a great Gall. The Hen is like in Co- 

 lour to the common V/ild-Duck, but fairer and lighter coloured, with more full and 

 lively Mixtures of white and brown Colours ; the Head and upper part of the Neck in- 

 clining to a redifti brown; the Bill and Legs of a dark lead Colour. 



This Bird may be diftinguiftied from all others of the Duck-Kind by the Length of 

 the middle Feathers of its Tail, as by a certain and charaderiftick Note., 



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