NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description Observations. 



very beautiful. The neck is finely variegated 

 with white and black feathers; tbe wing-feathers 

 are brown,, with their outward edges white; the 

 back is of a dark colour, intermixed with beau*- 

 tiful shades resembling the rainbow ; the sides of 

 the body underneath the wings, the thighs, and 

 near the vent, are of a sooty-coloured black; the 

 belly and breast white ; the legs and feet are ,of 

 A sort of dusky yellow. ^ 



THE MUSCOVY DRAKE V 



IS considerably larger than the generality fof 

 fowls of the duck kind; some of them being as 

 large as a small sized goose; the bill is broad 

 and short, of a reddish colour, a little hooked At 

 the end ; upon the upper part of which, between 

 .the nostrils, there grows a small round fleshy ex- 

 crescence, that appears red like a small cherry; 

 the irides of the eyes are white, encircled with a 

 fleshy sort of red substance, resembling that or* 

 the bill. The upper part of the head and neck 

 appear of a dusky colour, a little mottled with 

 white ; the sides of the wings and the back are 

 of a very uncommon mixture of red, green, 

 brown, purple, and white ; the under part of the 

 body white, interspersed here and there with a 

 few small brown feathers; the legs and feet of a 

 pale red, or rather orange colour. 



Thje flesh of the Muscovy drake differs from 

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