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thrice under feveral titles. It is fufficiently characterized and diftinguiihed from all 

 others of this kind by the breadth and bignefs of its Bill. 



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* The broad~bill'd, red- footed Duck ofAldrovand, which It ah to be the He^-Shoveler. * **#ph. 



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THe Legs and Feet wholly are of a deep red. The Bill is almoft three inches 

 long, very broad, and * turning up after the fafhion of a Buckler, of a dark * Atcurviai. 

 cbefhut colour 5 yet the lower Mandible, which almoft enters the upper [ being re- 

 ceived into it ] is in fome places of a Ipadiceous colour, and hath a remarkable ftrake 

 running through its middle long-ways. The Bill hath fuch teeth on both fides as 

 Gefner attributes to his * Muggent. The colour of the feathers, almoft the whole * Arwimup. 

 body over, comes near to that of pulveratricious birds £ Partridge and ghtail^ &c. ~] carU ' 

 called xe&tfA.vi/s, that is, teftaceous or pot-lheard colour. [Their pots were paler 

 than ours now adays. ] The whole Head and middle of the Neck were of a * Wea~ * mfitiini 

 fel colour, fprinkled with greater and leffer fpots, partly white, and thole very fmall colork ' 

 and fcarce confpicuous, partly brown, and thole moft in the crown and hinder part 

 of the Head. The Neck underneath is of a pale whitifh cinereous colour, withfe- 

 milunar brown fpots. The lame fpots, but greater, are difperfed over the fore-part 

 of the Back, the Breaft, the Belly, the Rump, and the Tail, all which parts are of the 

 fame colour with the Head, or yellowifh. The middle and lower part of the Back 

 are covered with feathers of a dark Ipadiceous colour, only white about the outmoft 

 edges. The ridges of the Wings are of a Woad colour. A line of the lame colour 

 crofles the middle of the Wings, above which is likewife feen atranfverfe white line. 

 The remaining parts of the Wings are of a dark Ipadiceous colour. 



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* A broad-bitt'd DhcJ^ with yellow Feet, of Aldrovand. 



TT differs little from the precedent in magnitude, unlets perchance it be fomwhat 

 bigger. Its Bill is partly brown, partly yellowilh. Over the whole body, which 

 is of a yellowilh afh-colour, are brown fpots diffeminated, thick-fet, and little in the 

 Head, greater, and thinner, or more fcattering in the Neck, Breaft, Belly, Rump, and 

 Tail, but much greater yet and thicker in the whole Back. The Wings to the middle 

 part are brown. A white line croffes them in the middle ^ after which is (een a 

 * fquare blue fpot, three angles whereof end in a black line : To this fucceeds a * or four 

 white line. Its Legs are yellow -, its Toes alfo yellow, but connected by dusky corner ' d < 

 membranes. 



This feems to be fome Hen-bird of the Duck-kind, not hitherto obferved by 



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 ^Pond-Ducks, frequenting chiefly frefl? waters. 



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The common wild Dnck_and Mallard : Bofcas major % Anas torquata minor * Aldrov. * Tom.$ 



IT weighs from thirty fix to forty ounces 5 being about twenty three inches long, 

 meaiuring from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail. The Wings ftretcht 

 out reacht thirty five inches. The Bill is of a greenifh yellow, from the angles 

 of the mouth produced two inches and an half, of about an inch breadth, not very 

 flat. The upper Mandible hath at the end a round tip or nail, fuch as is feen in moft 

 Birds of thiskind. The lower Eye-lids are white : The Legs and Feet of a Saffron- 

 colour j the Claws brown } but that of the back-toe almoft white : The inmoft fore- 

 toe is the leaft. The membranes connecting the Toes are of a mote fordid colour than 

 the Toes. The Wind-pipe at its divarication hath a veffel we call a labyrinth, 



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