378 O^^ClTtiOLOgr. Book III. 



toward the Vent are brown lines, and bigger fpots under the Tail. The colour of 

 the Back is brown, with a purplifh glofs. The Thighs are covered with feathers 

 handfomly variegated with tranfverfe black and white lines. The fcapular feathers 

 next the Wings are afh- coloured, the reft are of a Very beautiful purple colour, with 

 white lines in the middle. 



Each Wing hath twenty five quils, the outmoft ten of which are brown on the out- 

 fide the {haft, ontheinfideof a Moufe-dun : The eleven next have white tips, be- 

 neath the tips, as far as they appear beyond the covert-feathers, their exteriour Webs 



* Mwa^fcty of a *ftiining green, the interiour and the bottoms of the feathers being of a dusk or 

 them robe of Mou ^ e "^ un - The reft are brown, only the exteriour Webs edged with white. The 

 a purpiifli co- teffer rows of Wing-feathers are afti-coloured excepting thofe immediately incumbent 

 lour, with a on the quils, fome of which have white tips. 



dnereou°. The Tail is fhort [ three inches ] and when doled ending in a (harp point, of a 



dusky or dark brown colour, confifting of fourteen feathers 3 the outmoft feathers 

 are varied with fpots of a pale or whitifli red. The foal of the foot is black. 



The Cock had a Labyrinth at the divarication of the Wind-pipe, the Hen none. 

 The Hen is lefs than the Cock, and duller-coloured, wants the black (pot under 

 the Chin, and the red colour of the Cheeks. The Wings underneath are as in the 

 Cock, above more brown. The Back coloured like the Cocks 5 but the fcapular fea- 

 thers have not thofe beautiful colours. 



$. VIII. 



* Of the Summer-Teal, called by Gefner Ana circia. 



* Teal. s~> Efner takes that Duck they call Circia to be of the kind of the leffer * gyerqueduU: 



VJ A certain German renders it in High Dutch, Em Birckjlgen, and faith it is fo cal- 

 led from the found of its voice; that it is like a fmallD^, but differs in the colour 

 of the Wings and Belly. For the Wings want thofe glittering feathers, and the Belly - 

 is more f potted. 



This kind ( fo he proceeds ) I think is alfo found in our Lakes, for I law not long 

 fince a fmall fort of Duck taken in the beginning of January, little bigger than a Dob- 

 chick-, brown all over, having the Bill of a Duck, that is broad and brown : Alfo 

 dusky coloured Legs and Feet 3 the Neck an hand-breadth long, the reft of the body 

 fix inches. But it was a Hen, and had Eggs in the Belly. The Cock, I guefs, hath 

 more beautiful colours. In the Stomach I found nothing but fmall ftones, and the 

 feeds of fome water-plants, almoft of thefalhion of Lentiles ( but lefler and thicker) 

 and reddifh. Thus far Gefner. 



From this fhort defcription, and that too of a Hen bird, we cannot certainly ga- 

 ther, whether it be a diftinct Species from the precedent. But we fufpedt it was of 

 that bird which our Country men call the Summer-Teal, which Mr. Johnfon informs us 

 is of that bignefs 5 for we have not as yet feen it. 



Its Bill k black : The whole upper fide of a dark grey or light brown 3 the edges 

 \_ or extremes ] of the feathers in the Back are white. In the Wings is a line or fpot 

 of an inch breadth, partly black, partly of a fhining green, terminated on both fides 

 with white. In the Tail the feathers are fharp-pointed. The whole under fide 

 feems to be white, with a flight tincture of yellow 3 but on the Breaft and lower Bel- 

 ly are many pretty great black fpots. The Legs are of a-pale blue, the membranes be- 

 tween the Toes black. This is the leaft of all Ducks. In its ftomach difle&ed I found 

 nothing but grafs and ftones. This defcription we owe to \Ax. Jehnfon. 



§. IX. 



* Amid Brazilian Dmk. of the bignefs of a Goofe. Marggrave. 



IT hath a black Bill, dusky Legs and Feet. It is all over black except the beginnings 

 [ fettingon]of the Wings, which are white 3 but that black hatha glofs of fhi- 

 ning green. It hath a creft or tuft on it heads confifting of black feathers, and a cor- 

 rugated red mafs or bunch of flefti above the rife of the upper Mandible of the Bill. It 

 hath alio a red skin about the Eyes. Itisveryfiefhy, and good meat. They are com- 

 monly (hot fitting on high trees; For after they have wafht themfelves in cold water, 

 they fly up high trees, for the benefit of the frefh air and Sun. 



6. X. 



