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The hoohed'liWd Duck and Drake. Anas roftro adunca 



Kumb: XCVI, XCVIL 



' I ^HE Drake; its Weight was two Pound and two Ounces; its 

 -■- Length, from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail, was 

 twenty five Inches and a half; the Breadth, when the Wings are ex- 

 tended, two Foot ten Inches; the Bill was two Inches and a half long, 

 of a pale green Colour moderately bending ; the Hook or Nail at the 

 End black. 



The Head and upper part of the Neck, of a dark green, with two 

 Lines of fmall white Specks, one from the upper part of the Bill, reach- 

 ing over the Eye almoft to the back part of the Head, the other from 

 the Bill, to the under part of the Eye, which was encompaffed with a 

 Circle of the fame fmall white Feathers, the Chin was alfo fpeckled. 



The Throat, Breaft, and Belly, were white with fome few tranfverfe 

 Spots of redilli brown ; the Back, fcapular Feathers of the Wings, and 

 the Sides, are of the fame brown Colour, edged and fpeckled or dufted 

 over with white. 



The prime Feathers of the Wings were twenty four ; the firft fix 

 were all white, the reft redifli brown ; the firft Row of covert Feathers 

 were blue with white Tips, the fecond Row brown with white Tips. 



The Tail was made up of twenty black Feathers with white Tips, 

 four of the middlemoft being reflefted, circularly towards the Head: 

 the Legs and Feet were of an orange Colour. 



The Duck of this Kind was very like the common Duck, excepting 

 the Bill, which was hooked. Thefe Ducks are better layers than any 

 of the other, either wild or tame. 



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