Boo k lit. O^S^jlt HQ LOgY. 37* 



The four next the body are of a cinereous or reddilh brown. The feathers of the 

 fecond row, incumbent on the white quils, have their exteriour Webs of a black pur- 

 plilh ihining colour. In the third row are fpots of red fcattered. 



Its Bill is like that of the common Duck^ or Teal, flat, broad, with a hook or nail at 

 the end : The lower Mandible inclines to a Saffron colour 5 of the upper the fides are 

 of the fame colour, the middle part black: TheNofthrils great. 



The Legs are feathered to the Knees: The Feet whitifh: The hind-toe fmall : The 

 inner fore-toe ihorter than the outer : The membranes connecting the Toes black. It 

 hath a huge Gall-bladder. 



The Female hath the lame fpots in the Wings, but far duller colours 5 wants the 

 black colour on the Rump, the feathers there growing having pale red edges, as 

 have alfo thofe on the Back and Neck. It wholly wants thofe elegant femicircular 

 black and white lines and fpots in the Neck and Bread feathers, and the ftrakes under 

 the Wings. 



This Bird may be diftinguifhed from all others of the Duck:kind by this charade- 

 riftic note, that it hath on the Wings three ipots of different colour, one above ano- 

 ther, viz. a white, a black, and a red one. 



§. III. 



* Gefners Muggent : Anas mufcaria, Aldrov. lib.19. cap.41. 



IT is fo called becaufe it catches flies flying upon [or above] the water. It is 

 of the bignefs and fhape almoft of a tame Duck. The Bill is broad and flat, its 

 Upper Chap being wholly of a Saffron-colour, in length beyond the feathers two 

 inches : it is ferrate on both fides with broad and in a manner membranaceous teeth, 

 pretty high or deep 3 but thofe of the nether Chap are lower, and *rife not much, *s C andupor 

 making long ftri£. The Plumage almoft all thebody over is particoloured of blackifh, out buc very 

 fiery colour, and white, with a mixture of Weafel colour in fome places, or in (hort lmle ' 

 almoft like that of the Partridge, that is,teftaceous, as of moftof the pulveratricious 

 kind, but yet differing. Its Feet are yellow : Its Toes joyned by blackifti membranes : 

 Its Neck both on the upper and under fide is ipeckled [ sdctw j with the colours we 

 mentioned. The crown of the Head is blacker than the other partSj which colour 

 alfo is feen in the Wings, which are fhorter than the Tail. Thus far Gefaer. This Bird, 

 if it be different from the GadwaU, as the colour of the Bill and Feet might perfwade 

 one, is to me unknown. 



$. IV. 



The common Wigeon or Wkewer : Penelope Aldrovandi, tom.%. p.2 18. lin.^o. Anas 

 httx&ans, Argent or atenfibm Ein Schmey. 



"¥ T weighs twenty two ounces : Its length from Bill to Feet is twenty inches. The 

 I Head and upper end of the Neck are red. The crown towards the Bill is of a di- 

 lute colour, from red inclining to a yellowiih white. The upper part of the Breaft 

 and fides as far as the Wings is beautified with a very fair tincture of a red Wine co- 

 lour, with fmall tranfverfe black lines. The fcapular feathers, and thofe on the fides 

 under the Wings are very curioufly varied with narrow tranfverfe black and white 

 waved lines. The middle of the Back is brown, the edges of the feathers being cine- 

 reous, efpecially to wards the Tail. The feathers behind the Vent, next the Tail are 

 black : The Breaft and Belly white, with a little mixture of yellow. On both fides 

 under the Legs are fpots of a reddifh brown : Under the Tail are white feathers alike 

 fpotted, mingled with the black. The Tail is (harp pointed, and confifts of four- 

 teen feathers, of which the fix outer on each fide are brown, their exteriour edges 

 being whitifh 3 the two middle ones are black, with a mixture ofafh-colour. 



Of the quil-feathers the ten outmoft are brown: The next ten have white tips, 

 and among them the fifteenth, fixteenth, feventeenth, and eighteenth have their 

 outer webs firft of a black pur plifh colour, then as far as they appear beyond the 

 covert-feathers of a lovely blue. In the eighteenth feather the exteriour half of the 

 outer web is of a purplifh black, the interiour toward the bottom is cinereous: But 

 along the border of the black are fmall white fpots from the white tip to the bottom.' 

 The twentieth feather is all of a pale or white afh-colour : The twenty firft and 



twenty 



