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Each Wing hath about twenty fix quils $ of which the outmoft ten are black the 

 tip of the eleventh white 5 in the fucceeding the white increafes, till after three or 

 four it reaches to the bottom. The twentieth or twenty filft hath its exteriour half 

 white, its interiour black. [ There is fome variety infeveral Birds in the colours of 

 thefe feathers. ] The feathers immediately above the white feathers are alfo white : 

 Befides, in the lefler covert-feathers is a great fpot of white in fome birds, of grey in 

 others. The Legs and Feet are of an obfeure, fordid yellow, but about the ioynts 

 black. The web of the Foot is alfo black. The Legs are fituate backwards, as in the 

 reft of this kind, feathered down almoft to the knees, the Shanks (hort, but' the Feet 

 large : The inmoft Toe hath a membrane bordering on the outfide of it. The hind- 

 toe hath alfo its membrane annext. The Tail is three inches and an half long, made 

 up of (ixteen feathers, of the fame colour with the Back. 



Ifhould take this Bird to be the very fame with the precedent, not only in Species 

 but in Sex, notwithftanding its difference inbignefs, were it not that it had a labyrinth 

 on the Wind-pipe, which I fuppofe is proper only to the Males. So that either this is 

 the Male of the precedent, and both different in fpecies from the Golden-eye : Or, 

 which I rather incline to believe, thismuft be a young CockGolden-eye, that had not 

 moulted its chicken-feathers 3 and the precedent an old Hen-Golden- eye: And fo thefe 

 two fuppofed Species are reduced to the Golden-eye 5 they being all three the fame. 



0. XV. 



*Tom. 3 . ^ e Showier. Anas platyrhynchos altera five clypeata Germanis difta: Tafchenmul 

 pag.224. ' * AMrov. Anas latiroftra major, Gefner. Aldrov. p. 2 27. Breitfchnabel Germanis. 



IT is fbmething lefs than the common tame Dhc^ weighs twenty two ounces, being 

 in length-from the tip of the Bill to the end of -the Tail twenty one inches. Its Bill 

 is three inches long, coal-black, much broader toward the tip than at the bafe, exca^ 

 vated like a Buckler, of a round Circumference. At the end it hath a fmall crooked 

 hook or nail. Each Mandible is pectinated or toothed like a comb, with rays or 

 thin plates inferted mutually one into another when the mouth is (hut. The Tongue 

 is flefhy, thick, broad, efpecially toward the tip 3 but the tip it felf is thinner 

 and femicircular. The Eyes are of a deep yellow : The Legs and Feet of a Ver- 

 milion colour : The Claws black : The hind-toe little. The membrane con- 

 necting the Toes ferrate about the edges. The Feet are lefs than inothers of this 

 kind. 



The Head and Neck almoft half-way are of a fair blue. [ In the Bird which I de~ 

 ¥ . H _ fcribed at Rome, and in another which Mr. Willughhy faw at Cropland it was very 

 * dark, lightly tinctured with a deep mining green.] The under-fide of the Neck and 

 region of the Craw are white 5 the upper-fide and Shoulders particoloured of white 

 and brown. The reft of the Breaft and the whole Belly to the Vent are red. Be- 

 hind the Vent the feathers under the Tail are black. The Back is brown, with a light 

 dafh of a (hining green, blue or purple colour. The feathers covering the outfide of 

 the Thighs are adorned with tranfverfe dusky lines, as in many others. 



The number of quils in each Wing is about twenty four : The ten or twelve out- 

 moft whereof are wholly brown : The next nine have their outer edges of a deep 

 fhining green : The four next the body are varied in the middle and about their edges 

 with white lines. The feathers of the fecondrow incumbent on the green quil-feathers 

 have white tips, which together taken make a crofs line of white in the Wing. The 

 lefler covert-feathers of the Wing, excepting thole on the outmoft bone, are of a 

 pleafant pale blue, inclining to afh-colour. The Tail is about three inches and an hal f 

 long : confifts of fourteen feathers, particoloured of white and black, the out- 

 moft feathers being wholly white, the middlemoft, except the extreme white edges, 

 wholly black, the reft black in their middle parts, white about the borders or out- 

 fides. 



At the divarication of the Wind-pipe it hath a fmall labyrinth; A large Gall: Ob- 

 long Tefticles : A fmall mufculous Stomach or Gizzard : Guts many times reflected, 

 very long. The Female in refped of colours both in the Head and Neck, and alfo in 

 the whole body, upper-fide and under-fide, excepting only the Wings, is very like to 

 a wild Duck. The Wings are of the fame colours with the Wings of the Male, but 

 more dull, and not fo bright and pleafant. The Fowlers affirm, that thefe Birds 

 change their colours in Winter. Gefner and Aldrovand fet forth this kind twice or 



thrice 



