Book III. O^^lT HO LOqY. \s<> 



Yet the tips of all are black, and in the four or five outmoft the exteriour Webs alib. 

 In the middle quils the extreme tips are again white. All the covert feathers are grey, 

 excepting a white line in the upperaioft ridge of the Wing. The middle of the Back 

 is of a grey or aih-colour, with a light tin&ure of red. Of the fame colour are thofe 

 long feathers growing at thefettingon of each Wing, and covering the Back : Above 

 which appear in the Back two broad white fpots of the figure of the fegment of a 

 circle. The hinder part of the Back to the very Tail is black. The Taif it felf very 

 fhort, compofedof fixteen feathers, their upper fides grey, their under white, with 

 a light tin Aure of red. The Legs and Feet, as in other birds of this kind, red, yet 

 here and there, efpecially about the joynts, clouded with fable. The membranes 

 connecting the Toes, and all the foals of the Feet black. The Bird I defcribed was a 

 Cock, and had a Labyrinth at the divarication of the Wind-pipe. The Wind-pipe 

 it {elf was greater at the head, flenderer in the middle, and above the Labyrinth again 

 Iwoln into a greater tube. Its Stomach or Gizzard very large, and provided with 

 very thick and ftrong mufcles, filled with very imall ftones mingled with grafs. Its 

 Liver pale ; Gall-bladder little, blind guts long. 



This Bird I found in the Market at Rome, (hot, I fuppofe, upon the Sea-coaft. I ne- 

 ver hapned to fee it elfe where, neither do I find any deicription of it, or fb much ai 

 any mention made of it in any book. Where it lives and breeds I know not, 



f VIII. 



The Scaiip-Duck.: Perckanc e the Fuligula ofGefaer. 



IT is fbmewhat lefs than the common Duc^ about two foot long. Its Bill is broad, 

 and blue, the upper Mandible much broader than the nether. The Head and 

 part of the Neck are of a black green : The Breaftand underfide of the Neck black, 

 the lower part of the Neck hath fomething of white mingled. The Belly is white, 

 with a fprinkling of yellow in its lower part, about the Vent of black. The upper 

 part of the Back is of a footy or fable colour 5 the middle white, waved With tranf- 

 verfe lines of brown $ the lower, together with the Tail, brown. The Tail is fcarce 

 two inches long : The Wings brown, adorned on the upper fide with white fpots, 

 having alfo a crois line of white. The Legs and Feet,together with the Web and Claws 3 

 are of a dusky blue colour. 



This Bird is called the Scaup-duck^, becaufeftie feeds-upon Scaups i.e. broken fhel- 

 fifti : She varies infinitely in colour, efpecially in Head and Neck, fo that among a 

 pack of forty or fifty you (hall not find two exattly alike: A thing not ufualin this 

 kind. 



This Bird we have not as yet feen: We owe this defcription and hiftory of it to' 

 Mr. Johnfon. 



» 

 §. IX. 



The tufted Duck^: Anas Fuligula prima Gefneri,* Aldrov. Mergus cirratus minor Gefn. * omhUi 

 Querquedula criftata five Colymbis Bel/onii, Aldrovand. p.2 10. 1.3.^217, 



as we think. Capo negro at Venice. 



' He 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 on the 

 forehead defcend down the middle of the Bill in a peak or angle. The Nofthrils are 

 great, at a pretty diftancefrom the Plumage. The hides of the Eyes of a yellow or 

 gold colour: The Ears Imall, as perchance in all Water-fowl. The Head, efpecially 

 the crown, of a dark purple inclining to black, or rather black with fome mix- 

 ture of purple 5 whence at Venice, and elfewhere \n Italy, it is called, Capo negro. It 

 hath a creft or cop hanging down backwards from the Head, of an inch and half long. 

 The colour of the Neck, Shoulders, Back, in fine the whole upper part is a dark 

 brown, almoft black. 



The Wings are (hort, all the covert feathers black : The four outmoft quils of the 

 fame colour with the body 5 the fucceeding little by little whiter, the fubfequent 

 than the antecedent. The fecohd decador middle quils are purely white,all but their 

 tips, which are black. The next fix are wholly black. The Tail is very {hort,conv 

 pofed of fourteen black feathers, 



The 



